Making Sense in Behavioral Statistics - Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards covering key statistical concepts, organization, and descriptive statistics from Chapter 1 of Making Sense in Behavioral Statistics.

Descriptive Statistics

Methods for describing dataset results in systematic ways, including constructing tables, drawing graphs, and calculating measures of typical observations and differences among observations.

Univariate Statistics

Statistical topics that focus on a single variable, encompassing descriptive and inferential measures such as means, variances, and frequencies.

Bivariate Statistics

Statistical topics that focus on two variables, encompassing descriptive and inferential methods such as correlation and regression.

Inferential Statistics

A major branch of statistics that, along with descriptive statistics, is organized under univariate and bivariate topics.

Measures of a typical observation

A category of descriptive statistics that summarizes a representative value for observations in a dataset.

Measures of variation

A category of descriptive statistics that summarizes how much observations differ from one another in a dataset.

Chapter 2 Topic

Procedures for tabling and graphing entire distributions of observations.

Chapter 3 Topics

Statistics for summarizing the typical observation in a dataset, the amount of variation in observations, and other characteristics of distributions.