NURSUFYANA ULFA BT CHE MUSTAFFA (S822035)

STATISTIC

WEEK 1

DEFINITION OF TERMS

TERMS DEFINITION
1. Statistic 1. A fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large
quantity of numerical data.
2. It is useful for drawing general conclusion about a set of
data from a sample of data.
3. It concerns with the
 Collection
 Classification
 Analysis
 Interpretation of numerical facts.
2. Nominal Variable 1. A qualitative variable that characterize, describes or name
an element of a population
2. For example:
 Hair colour (black, brown, grey)
 Make of car (Suzuki, Honda, etc)
 State of birth ( Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perlis and etc)
 Sex (Male, Female)
 Marital Status (married, single, widowed)
3. Ordinal Variable 1. A qualitative variable that incorporates an ordered position
or ranking.
2. For example:
 Grades (A, B, C, D, E and F)
 Level of satisfaction (Very satisfied, satisfied, somewhat
satisfied)
 Frequency (Always, Usually, Often, Occasionally, Rarely
and Never)
4. Ratio Scale 1. Is like an interval scale BUT HAS ABSOLUTE ZERO.
2. Absolute zero means absence of the characteristics being
measured.
3. Highest and most informative scale
4. For example
 Income
 Age
 Height
 Weight
 Number of items correct on a test
5. Interval Scale 1. Scale with values, and there is the same numerical distance
between each value
2. The scale has an arbitrary zero point (no true meaningful
zero point)
 3. For example
 Current temperature
 Many behavioral science questionnaire
 IQ
 How appealing is this cereal box to children
Not at all very
-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
6. Mean 1. Sum of scores divided by the number of scores
2. Often referred to as the statistical average
7. Median 1. Median is the middle value.
2. The median is the middle number in a list of numbers
ordered from lowest to highest.

3, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9,10
8. Mode 1. The mode is the value that appears the most often in a set
of data.

2. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5

No Frequency
3 2
4 3
5 4
6 2
7 2
8 1
9 1

Mode is 5. 5 appears 4 times in a set of data.

9. Standard deviation 1. Statistic used to measure the dispersal about the mean.

10. Variance 1. Tell us how spread out the data is