KEY TERMS FOUND IN STATISTICS EXAMINATION

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS (HA)

BAR CHART
BETA = P(TYPE II ERROR)
BINOMIAL RANDOM VARIABLE (SUCCESS OR FAILURE OUTCOMES)
BOXPLOT
COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION
COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION
CONFIDENCE INTERVAL
CONFIDENCE LEVEL
CONTINUOUS
CRITICAL VALUE
DEGREES OF FREEDOM
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DISCRETE
EMPIRICAL RULE FOR BELL/MOUND SHAPED DISTRIBUTIONS
EXPECTED VALUE
EXPLAINED VARIATION
FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION
INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
INTERQUARTILE RANGE
INTERVAL ESTIMATE
JOINT FREQUENCY TABLE
LENGTH OF INTERVAL
LINE CHART
LINEAR REGRESSION LINE
MEAN
MEDIAN
MODE
NARROW INTERVAL
NORMAL RANDOM VARIABLE
NULL HYPOTHESIS (Ho)
ONE-TAIL TEST
p-VALUE
PERCENTILE
PIE CHART
POINT ESTIMATE
POPULATION
POPULATION PARAMETER
POPULATION PROPORTION ()
PREDICTED VALUE
QUALITATIVE DATA
QUANTITATIVE DATA
RANGE
REJECTION REGION
SAMPLE
SAMPLE PROPORTION = p
SAMPLE SIZE
SAMPLE STATISTIC
SCATTER DIAGRAM
SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL =ALPHA=P(TYPE I ERROR)
SKEWNESS
SLOPE = REGRESSION COEFFICIENT (b1)
STANDARD DEVIATION
STANDARD ERROR OF ESTIMATE
STANDARD ERROR OF THE MEAN (STD DEVIATION OF SAMPLE MEAN)
STUDENT t RANDOM VARIABLE
SYMMETRIC
TEST STATISTIC, SUCH AS Z STATISTIC (Z VALUE) OR t STATISTIC

TOTAL VARIATION
TWO-TAIL TEST
VARIANCE
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
WIDE INTERVAL
y INTERCEPT (bo)