The SAT Math Test: Problem Solving and Data Analysis

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  1. association
    a relation resulting from interaction or dependence
  2. causation
    the act of making something happen
  3. complement
    either of two parts that create a whole
  4. correlation
    a statistical relation between two or more variables
  5. data
    a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
  6. distribution
    an arrangement of values of a variable by frequency
  7. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  8. survey
    determining opinions by interviewing people
  9. frequency
    the number of occurrences within a given time period
  10. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  11. quantitative
    expressible as an amount that can be measured
  12. mean
    an average computed by adding some function of the numbers
  13. median
    the value below which 50% of the cases fall
  14. mode
    the most frequent value of a random variable
  15. model
    a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
  16. outcome
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  17. outlier
    a value in a set of data that differs widely from other data
  18. trend
    a general direction in which something tends to move
  19. permutation
    a change in the order or arrangement of objects in a group
  20. plot
    a chart, map, or graph showing progress, distribution, etc.
  21. population
    the entire aggregation from which samples can be drawn
  22. probability
    a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur
  23. statistics
    a branch of mathematics concerned with quantitative data
  24. randomization
    an arrangement or selection that depends on chance
  25. simulation
    representation of something, often on a smaller scale
Created on Wed Sep 14 17:46:16 EDT 2022 (updated Thu Sep 15 17:14:19 EDT 2022)

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