The Normal Distribution Sampling Methods Sampling Variability Experiments The Solar System
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What is z-score?
This value is found by subtracting the mean and then dividing by the standard deviation.
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What is bias?
The term for a systematic preference shown in a study.
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What is sampling variability?
The term for the fact that our samples may be different from one another due to random chance.
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What is a treatment?
The variable we change.
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What is Pluto?
Mickey's Dog or Roman God of Death? This dwarf-planet was excluded from the official list of planets in 2006
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What is mean?
The center of a Normal Distribution
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What is Simple Random Sample (SRS)?
An unbiased method of sampling
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What is sample proportion?
The proportion of our sample that gives a specific response.
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What are subjects?
The individuals to whom we give our treatments.
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What is Jupiter?
This gas giant is the largest planet in the Milky Way
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What is 95%?
The proportion of our data within 2 standard deviations from the mean
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What is convenience sampling?
A biased method of sampling that chooses individuals based on how easy they are to access.
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What is standard deviation?
The average distance from our sample proportion.
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What is the placebo effect?
When the belief in a treatment causes it to take effect.
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What is Venus?
The hottest planet in the Solar System.
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What is the Empirical Rule (68-95-99.7 Rule)?
The rule which tells us what percent of the Normal Distribution is within 1, 2, or 3 standard deviations of the mean
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What is voluntary response sampling?
A biased method of sampling where a survey is publicly posted with individuals opting to respond.
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What is Margin of Error?
The interval that has a 95% chance of containing the true population proportion.
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What is a control group?
The individuals who we give no treatments to
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What is Uranus?
While all gas giants have rings, this one's spin vertically rather than horizontally.
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What is 2nd, VARS, 2?
The buttons we press on our calculator to find proportions between two z-scores.
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What is random sampling?
This lets us draw inferences about a population
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What is +/- 2*s.d (or 2 times the standard deviation)?
The way we find Margin of Error
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What is Random Assignment?
What lets us make cause-and-effect conclusions
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What is The Kuiper Belt?
The group of objects containing Pluto, Eris, and other dwarf planets.






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