Vocabulary
Across
- 2. categorizing or describing attributes of a population
- 5. wording of the questions influences the responses
- 6. data that is collected and not yet organized
- 7. takes a fixed set of possible values with gaps between them
- 8. take any value in an interval on the number line
- 9. a portion of the population
- 12. people refuse to participate in the study
- 16. a number that is a property of the population
- 17. using results that are readily available
- 18. a number that represents a property of the sample
- 20. result of counting or measuring attributes of a population
- 21. using chance to select individuals
- 22. Gathering information about an entire population
- 24. methods for drawing conclusions from data
- 26. variable occurs when the response we see in an experiment is a least partially attributable to uncontrolled variables
- 28. data by classifying data into classes
- 29. sampling that occurs when the researchers have an interest in the outcome
- 30. sample is not representative of the population
Down
- 1. the responder fears giving an honest answer
- 3. sampling that often occurs when the sample are volunteers
- 4. organizing and summarizing data
- 7. actual values of the variable
- 10. collection of objects under study
- 11. characteristic of interest
- 13. randomly select a starting point and take every nth piece of data
- 14. study where the effects of a treatment are measured
- 15. study based on observations or measurements
- 16. study randomness
- 19. variable occurs when an apparent association between two variables is really just common response to a third unseen variable
- 23. the responder gives inaccurate responses
- 25. divide the population into group and then randomly select some of the groups
- 27. is a “dummy” treatment given to the control group