Question

A cardiologist is interested in the average recovery period for her patients who have had heart attacks. Match the vocabulary word with its corresponding example.

Answer 1

1. All heart attack patients that the cardiologist has cared for or will care for in the future ⇒ B. POPULATION (entire group of individuals from where the sample must be chosen)

2. The 32 heart attack patients who were observed by the cardiologist ⇒ D. SAMPLE (the group that was observed)

3. The average recovery time for all heart attack patients that the cardiologist has or will treat ⇒ A. PARAMETER (the mean of the whole population)

4. The average recovery time for the 32 heart attack patients ⇒ E. STATISTICS (the mean of the sample)

5. The recovery time for a heart attack patient ⇒ F. VARIABLE (the data's attribute or value)

6. The list of all 32 heart attack patients' recovery times ⇒ C. DATA (information collected form the sample)