Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 6:34 AM
Site: europa virtuelle Volkshochschule
Course: Statistik Wörterbuch (Statistik Wort)
Glossary: Dictionary
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axioms of probability

See Kolmogorov axioms

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C

Central tendency

A typical value for a distribution.

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coin toss

If it is a fair coin, then a coin toss can be regarded as random experiment.

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complement

The complement of set A contains everything that is not in the set A

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conditional probability

The measure of the probability of an event occurring, given that another event occurred.

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continuous variable

Can take an uncountable set of values.

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D

dependent variable

The value of a dependent variable depends on the value(s) of independent variable(s).

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descriptive statistics

Summaries of a given data set, which can be either of an entire population or a sample of a population.

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deterministic event

An event in which we can predict what will happen according to some model or set of equations. Once we know the starting conditions, we know the endpoint

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discrete variable

The number of values is either finite or countably infinite.

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