Statistics Terminology

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Across
  1. 1. Process undertaken to collect data on a population or sample
  2. 3. ____ sample: a sample for which every member of a populatio n has an equal chance of selection.
  3. 5. All of the items under investigation
  4. 8. An unwanted influence that stops the sample or survey from being representative of a population
  5. 9. Observations or facts which, when collected, organised and evaluated, become information.
  6. 10. ___sample: a sample chosen by using a set pattern, for example, choosing every tenth number in the phone book.
Down
  1. 1. ____ sample a sample consisting of a percentage of items from each ‘strata’ or ‘layer’ of a population.
  2. 2. ____ sample: a sample for which every member of a population has an equal chance of selection.
  3. 4. ____ sample: a sample in which people volunteer to be part of the sample, such as an SMS poll or a website survey, so it is not random.
  4. 6. A survey of all the items or people in a population.
  5. 7. A group of items selected from a population to study