Statistics studies the ____ and interpretation of ____ data. The data that we study is called the variable and there are 2 types – independent and dependent. ____ Variable – what you change or manipulate in order to examine what happens during your study. ____ Variable – depends on or changes as a result of changes in any independent variable. In statistics the larger group is called the ____ (the entire group) and the smaller group is the ____, drawn from the population. The data gathered is divided between qualitative and quantitative and ordinal ____ (categorical) – can be separated into different categories that are distinguished by some non-numeric characteristics – e.g., gender, social class, opinions, political party, eye colour. ____ – data is numeric – e.g. weight, height. ____ – involves data that may be arranged in order e.g. exam grades. Quantitative data can be further broken down into 2 further categories of discrete and continuous. ____ – whole numbers – e.g. the number of patients in waiting room, shoe sizes. ____ – range of values can include decimal numbers – e.g. the amount of rainfall, height.

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