English homework

1)What is the function of Statistics?

Statistics is useful for a wide variety of factual sciences, from physics to the social sciences, from
the health sciences to quality control. In addition, it is used in business areas or government
institutions with the aim of describing the set of data obtained for decision making, or to make
generalizations about the observed characteristics.

2)What is the difference between Inferential Statistics and Descriptive Statistics?

Descriptive statistics summarize the information contained in the collected data and inferential
statistics demonstrate associations and allow comparisons between observed characteristics.

3)What do you have to do first when you have a “chaos” of numbers if you want to analyze them?

Combined operations problem

1) First solve the operation or operations inside the parentheses.

2) If there are several operations in a row, first do the multiplications and divisions and then the
additions and subtractions.

4)What are Descriptive Statistics?

Descriptive statistics synthesizes and summarizes data and transforms it into useful and easily
digestible information. It is used to collect, classify, represent and summarize data.

5)What does a frequency distribution table display?

A frequency table shows a set of statistical data in an orderly manner and assigns a frequency to
each of them, which, in a nutshell, is the number of times a number or data is repeated.

6)What are the 3 measures of central tendency? What is the difference between them?

Mean, median and mode. To calculate the average you just have to add all the data and divide it
by the amount of data you have. For the median, order the data from smallest to largest or vice
versa and choose the number that is in the middle of all. For mode, discover the most repeated
data.

7)What are the 4 measures of variability? What is the difference between them?

1)Range.
2) Interquartile range.
3) Variance.
4)Standard deviation
The range and interquartile range (IQR) measure the spread of a data set. Looking at the spread
allows us to see how much the data varies. The range is a quick way to get an idea of the
spread.The variance and standard deviation indicate whether the values are more or less close to
the position measures. The standard deviation is simply the positive square root of the variance.
8)What are Inferential Statistics?

Statistical inference is the set of methods and techniques that allow inducing, from the empirical
information provided by a sample, what is the behavior of a certain population with a measurable
risk of error in terms of probability.

9)What is the difference between a Null Hypothesis and an Alternative Hypothesis?

The null hypothesis is a hypothesis that the researcher tries to refute, reject, or nullify. The null
often refers to the common view of something, while the alternative hypothesis is what the
researcher actually thinks is the cause of a phenomenon.

10) What are confidence intervals? When do we use them?

Confidence intervals allow us to approximate, once the value of the variable in the sample has
been calculated, between what range of values is the inaccessible real value of the variable in the
population, with a degree of uncertainty that we can determine.