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    Statistical Symbols: Population - Parameter Sample - Statistic

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    This document defines common statistical symbols used to describe populations and samples. It provides symbols for measures of center (mean, median, proportion), spread (variance, standard deviation, range, interquartile range), and relative standing (z-score). It also defines symbols for describing bivariate data (correlation coefficient, slope, intercept) and normal distributions (mean, variance, standard deviation). Population parameters are usually unknown and fixed values, while sample statistics vary from sample to sample and are used to estimate population parameters.

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    This document defines common statistical symbols used to describe populations and samples. It provides symbols for measures of center (mean, median, proportion), spread (variance, standard deviation, range, interquartile range), and relative standing (z-score). It also defines symbols for describing bivariate data (correlation coefficient, slope, intercept) and normal distributions (mean, variance, standard deviation). Population parameters are usually unknown and fixed values, while sample statistics vary from sample to sample and are used to estimate population parameters.

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    This document defines common statistical symbols used to describe populations and samples. It provides symbols for measures of center (mean, median, proportion), spread (variance, standard deviation, range, interquartile range), and relative standing (z-score). It also defines symbols for describing bivariate data (correlation coefficient, slope, intercept) and normal distributions (mean, variance, standard deviation). Population parameters are usually unknown and fixed values, while sample statistics vary from sample to sample and are used to estimate population parameters.

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    This document defines common statistical symbols used to describe populations and samples. It provides symbols for measures of center (mean, median, proportion), spread (variance, standard deviation, range, interquartile range), and relative standing (z-score). It also defines symbols for describing bivariate data (correlation coefficient, slope, intercept) and normal distributions (mean, variance, standard deviation). Population parameters are usually unknown and fixed values, while sample statistics vary from sample to sample and are used to estimate population parameters.

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    Statistical Symbols

    Population - parameter Sample - statistic


    size: N n
    center:
    mean  “mu” x “x bar”
    median n/a M or ~x “x tilde”
    proportion  “pi” p
    (p in text) ( p̂ in text)
    spread:
    variance 2 “sigma squared” s2 “s squared” = (x - x )2/(n - 1)
    standard deviation  “sigma” s
    range n/a n/a
    interquartile range n/a IQR = Q3 - Q1

    relative standing:
    z score = (x - mean)/sd Z z
    the # of sd’s from the mean

    for bivariate data:


    correlation coefficient  “rho” r
    slope 1 “beta 1” b1
    intercept 0 “beta naught” b0
    These are fixed numbers, These vary from sample to sample.
    usually unknown. We use them to estimate the
    population parameters.

    Standard Normal Distribution Notation: Z ~ N(0,12)  Z, a random variable, is distributed normally with
    mean,  = 0, variance, 2 = 12, and standard deviation,  = 1.

    Non-Standard Normal Distribution: X ~ N(x,x2)  X, a random variable, is distributed normally with


    mean, , variance, 2, and standard deviation, .

    Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean from a Normal Population: X n ~ N(x, x2/n)  X n, a
    random variable calculated from a sample of size n, is distributed normally with mean,  X = x (the mean
    of the parent population), variance,  X = x2/n and standard deviation,  X = x/ n .
    2

     (1   )
    Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion: pn ~ N(, )  pn, a random variable, is
    n
     (1   )  (1   )
    distributed normally with mean,  p = , variance,  p 2 = and standard deviation, p = .
    n n

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