Statistics Monkey Investigation worksheet 1

3. Define the following terms in the context of the monkey study:

a. What is the data that was collected?

b. What is the observational unit that the data was collected on?

c. What is the variable that was recorded for each observational unit?

d. Is the variable a quantitative variable or a categorical variable?

e. What are the possible values (numbers or categories) of the variable?

f. What is the sample that we have data from?

g. What is the population that we would like to generalize to? What is the parameter we would like to say something about?