measure levels of
same characteristics, plus underlying scale of equal intervals
same characteristics, plus legitimate zero point
in a
combined to form
is a
a portion of
describe/summarize
a characteristic of
in important aspects, mirror
information about different
might encounter
same characteristics. plus the notion of order
a characteristic of
based upon information from
relates to a particular
make statement about

The What and How of Statistics

Statistical analysis terms

purposes of data analysis

Descriptive statistics

Levels of measurements

Variable

nominal level of measurement

ordinal level of measurement

interval level of measurement

Ratio level of measurement

relative to some specific

Data set

data points

Data

Frequency distribution

data distribution

listing of

value/ response

a table/graph shows the number of times

Population/universe

sample

representative sample

inferential statistics

statistic

parameter

sampling error