Math Vocabulary

2. no prejudice for or against something.
5. unfairly for or against someone or something.
8. A selection that is chosen by random.
9. inference that does not guarantee the truth of the conclusion.
10. process of drawing conclusions about something.
12. two box and whisker plots on the same number line. They are used for comparisons of two different populations on the same subject.
14. The researcher chooses a sample that is readily available in some non-random way.
15. People decide whether or not to be in the sample that a researcher puts out.
17. A small quantity of something larger, represents the same properties and proportions like that of a larger population.
19. measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality.
20. describes a subject, and cannot be expressed as a number.

1. inference based upon sound evidence.
3. arrange members of a population in some order, pick a random starting point, and select every member in a set interval.
4. chart that shows statistical data based on the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.
6. a randomly selected subset of a population. Each member has an exactly equal chance of being selected.
7. An outcome of a random experiment.
11. method of data collection used to gather information about.
13. Group of animals or people that share one common characteristic for analysis and data collection.
16. practice of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities used for proportions.
18. chart where data is plotted with dots and show quantity and averages.