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Majority of patients who died of lung cancer are males. 95% of the population has 66 inches height. Wearing of seatbelts increases the chance of survival in automobile accidents. Carbon monoxide is one of the major pollutants of smog. Blood makes up 8% of the total body weight.

At the age of 70, what is the average amount of water that a man has consumed?

12, 000 gallons

For how many times does a normal heart beat in a day?

100,000

How long does it take for food in the mouth to enter the stomach?

7 seconds

True or False: The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.

True

In average, how many dreams does a man have in one night sleep?

7 dreams

You speak 4,800 words a day!

any qualitative or quantitative information. could be found through surveys, experiments, records, etc.

represent differences in quality, character, or kind but not in amount. They yield nonnumeric values.

Ex: Gender, birth month, locations, eye color

Refers to numerical information obtained from counting or measuring that can be manipulated by any fundamental operation Ex: age, speed, test scores, temperature

*Quantitative data are further classified as either discrete or continuous.

refers to the totality of all the elements or persons fro which one has an interest at a particular time.

Example: 4th Year students of CMRICTHS in the year 2013-2014

Filipino people in 2013

It is part of a population determined by saampling.

Example: 4th Year students of CMRICTHS in the year 2013-2014 who are good at dancing Selected Filipino people in 2013

Parameter is any statistical information or attribute taken from a population. It is a true value or actual statistics since its source is the population itself. Statistic is any estimate of statistical attributes taken from a sample.

Is a specific factor, property, or characteristic of a population, or a sample which differentiates a sample or group of samples from another group.

Example: Examination: Time, gender

A discrete variable is a variable whose values can be counted using integral values.

Examples: Number of employees, number of students in classroom, number of cars owned, number of siblings

A continuous variable is a variable that can assume any numerical value over an interval or intervals. It yields fractions or decimals.

Examples: Height, weight, temperature, time

relates to the rules used to assign scores and is an indicator of the kind of information that the scores provide

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numbers for the purpose of identifying name or membership in a group or category. As the name implies, it consists of naming observations or classifying them into various categories.

Religion Catholic Protestants Iglesia ni Cristo El Shaddai No religions Not reported

Number of Persons 1, 170 45 62 25 95 13

Other examples: gender, political party, names of schools attended

connote ranking or inequalities. One category is higher than the other. In this type of data, numbers represent greater than or less than.

Examples: Social class or incomes, grades (A,B,C) winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd )

The measurement where data are arranged in some order and the differences between data are meaningful. Data at this level may lack inherent zero starting point.

Examples: Aptitude test score, temperature

This measurement is an interval level modified to include the inherent zero starting point.

Examples: Election votes, ages of students, weights of beef

Determine whether the following are Qualitative or Quantitative. If Quantitative, classify if continuous or discrete. 1. Blood types in the blood bank 2. number of patients for consultation in a day 3. gender of newborn babies in the hospital 4. height of a newborn baby 5. number of plants in the school

State the level of measurement for the following: 1. Blood pressure 2. degrees of burn 3. height of students 4. favorite sports 5. rank in the class 6. number of students who passed 7. temperature 8. marital status 9. nationality 10. score in a game