Statistics Crossword Review
Across
- 4. useful for plotting small sets of data
- 5. plot that displays the shape of a distribution and actual values
- 7. random sample chosen after dividing population into groups
- 9. systematically favors certain outcomes
- 10. a variable other than the explanatory variable or response variable that may influence the interpretation of the relationship
- 11. a dummy treatment in experiments
- 13. the expectation of the squared deviation of a random variable from its mean
- 20. individual chosen for the sample cant be reached or doesn't cooperate
- 21. variables that place individuals into one of several groups
- 25. using a regression to predict far outside the observed values
- 26. collects information from every individual in a population
- 28. display of the 5-number summary
- 30. measures the strength and direction of a linear association
- 31. entire group of individuals that we want info from
Down
- 1. the difference between the largest and smallest values
- 2. distance between the minimum and maximum
- 3. representative subset of a population
- 6. a value that lies beyond the whiskers of a box-and-whisker plot
- 8. outcome of the trial is not influenced by anything else
- 12. when the effects on a response variable cannot be distinguished between variables
- 14. variables that take on numerical values
- 15. displays the relationship between two quantitative variables
- 16. the value separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half.
- 17. useful for plotting very large sets of data
- 18. describes that relationship between two quantitative variables
- 19. is the sum of a collection of numbers divided by the number of numbers in the collection.
- 22. difference between the observed and predicted value of y
- 23. value that has a certain percent of observations below it
- 24. correlation does not imply
- 27. distribution describes the values a statistic would take in many repetitions of a sample
- 29. shape of the distribution that is piled up on one side