FANR 3000: Lecture 1
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Population
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Set of all individuals you are interested in
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Sample
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Subset of a population you are interested in
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Variables
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The Measurable characteristics of a sample we are interested in
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Observations
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Set of measurements we have obtained
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qualitative data
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consists of attributes, labels or other non-numerical entries
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Nominal data
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Can't be ranked or ordered
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Ordinal
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A category that can be ranked or ordered
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Continuous
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those that may assume any number in some interval. every fraction is a possible value.
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discrete
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finite number, countable number
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quantitative
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describing using #s and measurements
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FANR 3000: TEST 2