BASIC TERMS

AND CONCEPT
OF STATISTICS
Here starts the
lesson!
What is
statistics?
The larger definition of statistics
Statistics is a discipline concerned with
is a collection of methods for the analysis of data and decision
collecting, displaying, making based upon data
analyzing, and drawing
conclusions from data.

Statistics as we know it and use It is a very large subject area

it was developed beginning mostly applied in practical ways
around 1893 and continues to be to data for which there is no
refined to this day. theoretical probability.
 Descriptive Statistics
It is the branch of statistics that
involves organizing, displaying,
and describing data.
Inferential Statistics
Is the branch of statistics that
involves drawing conclusions
about a population based on
information contained in
a sample taken from that
population.
 Definition of
Terms and
Concepts
Populations and Samples
Populations any specific
collection of objects of interest.
A sample is any subset or
sub collection of the population,
including the case that
the sample consists of the whole
population, in which case it is
termed a census.
Measurments and Sample Data
A measurement is a number or
attribute computed for each member
of a population or of a sample. The
measurements of sample elements
are collectively called the sample
Data.
.
Parameters
A parameter is a number that
summarizes some aspect of the
population as a whole. A statistic
is a number computed from
the sample data.
.
Two kinds of Qualitative Variables
variables are measurements for which there is
no natural numerical scale, but which
consist of attributes, labels, or other
non-numerical characteristics.

Quantitative Variables

Quantitative data are

numerical measurements that
arise from a natural numerical
scale.
 Nominal scale level
Four levels of Categories, colors, names, labels and
favorite foods along with yes or no
measurement responses are examples of nominal
level data. 
Ordinal scale level
The ordinal scale data can be
ordered. Like the nominal scale data,
ordinal scale data cannot be used in
The way a s calculations.
et of
data is mea
sured is Interval scale level
called its le
v el o f
measureme
nt. Data that is measured using the
interval scale is similar to ordinal
level data because it has a definite
ordering but there is a difference
between data.
 Ratio scale level

 Ratio scale data is like interval scale

data, but it has a 0 point and ratios
can be calculated. You will not have a
negative value in ratio scale data.
THANK YOU!
Rizza Lynn L. Labastida