Statistics for Everyday Life
Statistics for Everyday Life flashcards
92 cards covering the key statistics for everyday life vocabulary. Reveal the definition, mark the ones you know, and shuffle for another pass. Recalling a term before you flip — rather than re-reading it — is what moves it into long-term memory.
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- A/B test
- Absolute risk
- ANOVA
- Base rate
- Base-rate fallacy
- Bayes’ theorem
- Bayesian statistics
- Bin width
- Box plot
- Calibration
- Categorical data
- Cherry-picking
- Chi-square test
- Conditional probability
- Confidence interval
- Confounder
- Conjunction fallacy
- Consumer price index
- Contingency table
- Continuous data
- Correlation coefficient
- Data analysis workflow
- Data cleaning
- Data literacy
- Descriptive statistics
- Discrete data
- Distribution
- Effect size
- Expected value
- Exploratory data analysis
- Extrapolation
- Forecast
- Frequentist statistics
- Gambler's fallacy
- Gambler’s fallacy
- Histogram
- Independence
- Independent events
- Inferential statistics
- Interquartile range
- Margin of error
- Mean
- Median
- Missing data
- Mode
- Multiple comparisons
- Multiple regression
- Multiple-comparisons problem
- Natural experiment
- Natural variation
- Non-response bias
- Nonparametric methods
- Number needed to treat
- Numerical data
- Ordinal data
- Outlier
- Overfitting
- p-hacking
- p-value
- Percentage point
- Population
- Probability
- Publication bias
- R-squared
- Random sampling
- Randomized controlled trial
- Randomness
- Range
- Regression
- Regression to the mean
- Relative risk
- Replication
- Risk difference
- Risk of ruin
- Robust statistics
- Sabermetrics
- Sample
- Scatter plot
- Selection bias
- Sensitivity
- Simpson’s paradox
- Skew
- Specificity
- Spurious correlation
- Standard deviation
- Statistical power
- Statistical significance
- Statistics
- Survivorship bias
- t-test
- Training and test data
- Variance