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Biostat 1 - Terms PDF
Biostat 1 - Terms PDF
• INTERVIEW
STEPS:
• EXPERIMENT
• OBSERVATION
inference.
SAMPLING METHODS:
• DATA - set of measurements; can be
either SAMPLE or POPULATION.
• Distance
• Height
• Coefficient of
R ⇢ RATIO TRUE zero
• Measured variation
amounts
• Satisfactory
O ⇢ ORDINAL
ORDER; label + rating
• MEDIAN
ranking • Label of • Percentiles
rooms
• Gender
LABEL;
• Race
• No. Of cases
N ⇢ NOMINAL represents a
• Scantron
• MODE
category/ number
• Bar codes
example:
HEIGHT (in):
68 60 68 67 66 62 61 63 64
65 66 66 63 65 65 62 63 64
61 71 56 65 61 64
*** AT MOST - - ≤
← 0.5 0.5 →
How many? Class interval ↓ (+) ↑ (+)
MIDPOINT/ <
RELATIVE BOUNDARIES > SUM
HEIGHT TALLY FREQUENCY CLASS CUMULATIVE R.F. %
FREQ. LL- UL FREQ.
MARK FREQ.
= 23 = 100 ORIGINAL=23