Terms
nPOPULATION -
the entire group a researcher wishes to study
nSAMPLE - a
subset of the population
nPARAMETER Ð a
characteristic of a population
nVARIABLE - anything
measured about the participants/subjects
nDependent -
what is measured, it is the outcome variable
nIndependent -
what the researcher manipulated or controlled
na. Quantitative
(continuous) Ð amount,
degree of the variable
nb. Qualitative
(categorical, nominal) -
categories
nRAW DATA - the
actual numbers collected
nData is a plural
noun
nCorrect: The data are presented in Table 1
nSAMPLE STATISTIC - a summary measure of the sample