Collecting Data

2. a portion of the population from which information is actually collected.
4. a generalized attribute, a changing value
7. interpreting and drawing conclusions based on data is this type of statistics.
11. a branch of mathematics that covers the methods and procedures of analyzing data.
12. types of variables that are numerical.
13. types of variables that are words, symbols, or categories

1. a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a population.
2. a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a sample.
3. the collection of all items under consideration in a study
5. data obtained from the entire population
6. a type of sample that has characteristics similar to the population being studied.
8. the collection of all observations for a particular variable/s.
9. collecting, organizing, summarizing, and presenting data is this type of statistics
10. a type of sampling using a random method to select a sample from the population.