Population/Variables/Scales
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| Current population=last census+births & in-migration-death & out-migration or last census+natural increase+net migration. Instead of applying natural increase rates to individual cohorts it is applied to entire population. No population composition data. | show 🗑
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| show | Step-down method (ratio)
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| Using readily obtainable data to predict changes in population | show 🗑
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| Categorize population into age groups (5 yr typical by sex). Each cohort is survived into future until target yr is reached. Appropriate death & birth rates are applied. Method of choice. Detailed and very accurate for short-term projections. | show 🗑
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| show | Exponential
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| show | Population
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| show | Sample
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| show | Sampling Frame
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| show | Random Selection
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| show | Random Assignment
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| Applies to a Sample | show 🗑
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| show | Parameter
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| Summary of value frequency or ranges of values. | show 🗑
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| µ "mu" represents the mean of the population | show 🗑
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| X-Bar generally represents the mean of a sample. The average of a distribution. | show 🗑
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| Middle number of a distribution | show 🗑
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| Number of a distribution that has highest frequency. | show 🗑
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| show | Normal distribution
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| show | Range
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| Measure of a dispersion around the mean calcualted as the average of the sum of the squared deviations from the mean. | show 🗑
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| show | Standard deviation - S
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| show | Standard error
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| show | Statistical significance
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| show | Quanitative
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| show | Qualitative
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| Each item is a separate, whole unit, with no fractional values possible (ie bldg. with 10 rooms) | show 🗑
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| show | Continuous data
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| show | Discontinuous data
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| show | Nominal Scale
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| show | Ordinal Scale
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| show | Interval Scale
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| show | Ratio Scale
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| Statement expressing relationships betwseen phenomena. Acceptance or non-acceptance upon a logical analysis of data using scientific method. 1st describe prediction, 2nd describe all possible outcomes. | show 🗑
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| show | Null hypothesis ("H sub O")
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| When hypothesis has a specific outcome. | show 🗑
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| show | Two-tailed hypothesis
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| show | Type 1 error
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| show | Type 2 error
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| show | Metropolitan Area
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| Includes at least 1 -50,000 pn city or an urbanized area and total metro population of at least 100,000. | show 🗑
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| show | Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA)
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| show | Cjonsolidated Medtropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA)
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| show | Census Tract
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| show | Census Block Group
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| show | Census Block
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| show | Block numbering areas
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| show | 1990
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| Straight line projection based on past population counts. | show 🗑
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| show | Gompertz Curve
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| show | Holding Capacity Technique
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