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REVIEW
3.1 Sampling Techniques
1. Statistics is the process of ____________________, _________________________, and
____________________ data.
2. Describe the difference between a sample and population.
Voluntary-response sample
Cluster sample
Convenience sample
Systematic sample
4. a) What is bias?
Median
Mode
b) For the set of data {2, 3, 4, 10, 15, 30, 50}, show how to calculate Q1, the median, and
Q3.
5. Describe the steps in finding the standard deviation of the set of data {2, 3, 4, 10, 15, 30,
50}.
1. Find the _______________.
2. Create a chart with __________ columns and enough rows for each number in your data
set.
3. Fill the first column row by row with the numbers from the data set, in order from least
to greatest.
4. In the second column, for each number in the data set, calculate the
____________________of the value from the mean.
5. In the third column, _______________ each value from the second column.
6. Calculate the __________ of all the values in the third column. This is the sum of the
squares of the differences from the mean.
7. The _______________ is the sum of the square of the differences from the mean divided
by the size of the data set (the number of values in the set of data, or the number of
rows of data in your table).
8. The standard deviation is the _________________________ of the variance.
6. a) How much of the data is within one standard deviation of the mean?
b) What do we call data that is within this spread?
3.6 Common Distributions
Frequency distributions, or histograms, can be created from numerical data sets. The shape of
the histogram can be interpreted to describe the data.
1. Label each distribution as either bimodal, normal, or skewed.