Formulae: Unit 14

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What is population?
The set of terms that you are interested in
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What is a census?
A survey of the whole population
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What is a sample?
A smaller number of items from the population
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How do you reduce bias?
The sample must represent the whole population
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What are strata?
When the population is divided into groups such as age range or gender
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What is a stratified sample?
When the number of people taken from each group is proportional to the group size
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What is a cumulative frequency diagram?
A graph with data values on the x axis and cumulative frequency on the y axis
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How do you estimate the lower quartile on a cumulative frequency diagram?
The n/4th value
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How do you estimate the upper quartile on a cumulative frequency diagram?
The 3n/4th value
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Where do you plot the point in grouped data?
On the upper bound of the group
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How do you work out the upper quartile for a set of n data values?
The UQ is the 3(n+1)/4th value
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How do you work out the lower quartile for a set of n data values?
The LQ is the n+1/4th value
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What is a comparative box plot?
Box plots for two different sets of data in the same diagram
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What is a histogram?
A frequency diagram used for grouped continuous data where the class intervals are unequal
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How do you calculate frequency density?
frequency / class width
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How do you describe a date set?
Give a measure of average and a measure of spread
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How do you compare data sets?
Compare a measure of average and a measure of spread
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Card 2

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What is a census?

Back

A survey of the whole population

Card 3

Front

What is a sample?

Back

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Card 4

Front

How do you reduce bias?

Back

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Card 5

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What are strata?

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