Vocab Fa Stat
Across
- 2. a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable
- 8. a number describing a whole population
- 12. a number describing a sample
- 13. has a greater chance for extreme values than normal distributions, hence the fatter tails.
- 14. distance from point estimate for the interval
- 16. an estimate of the population mean
- 17. an average of a group characteristic
- 18. the probability that the value of a parameter falls within a specified range of values
- 20. a statement about a parameter
Down
- 1. a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values
- 3. refers to the number of participants or observations included in a study.
- 4. a statistic measured from a sample
- 5. probability that measures the evidence against the null and for the alternative
- 6. error where we fail to reject Ho when it is false
- 7. a line on a graph that splits the graph into sections
- 9. Ha hypothesis
- 10. error where we reject Ho when it is true
- 11. tells you how significant the differences between groups are
- 15. Ho hypothesis
- 19. a _____ interval is one of plausible values for an unknown parameter value