Studied by 1 personStatistics
the science and art of colleting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data
Individual
an object described in a set of data; they can be people, animals, or things
Variable
an attribute that can take different values for different individuals
Categorical variable
assigns labels that place each individual into a particular group, called a category
Quantitative Variable
takes number values that are quantities; counts or measurements
Discrete variable
a quantitative variable that takes a fixed set of possible values with gaps between them
Continuous variable
a quantitative variable that can take any value in an interval on the number line
Distribution
tells us what values that variable takes and how often it takes those values
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