Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 6:38 AM
Site: europa virtuelle Volkshochschule
Course: Statistik Wörterbuch (Statistik Wort)
Glossary: Dictionary
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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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disjoint sets

Also: disjoint sets. Two sets are disjoint when they have no element in common.

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Dispersion

Also: Variability. The extent to which a distribution is spread.

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