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JCHL Statistics 1: Statistics Definitions

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Learning work

  • Primary data = data you collect yourself; Secondary data = data someone else collected
  • Population = the whole group you are studying; Sample = a smaller group taken from the population
  • A sample is biased if it does not fairly match the whole population
  • Census = data from every single person in the population; Outlier = a value far bigger or far smaller than the rest

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