Glossary
Statistical Assistant Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential statistical assistant terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key statistical assistant vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in statistical assistant training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Codebook
- Guide to variables.
- Coding
- Assigning categories.
- Crosstab
- Table by groups.
- Data cleaning
- Fixing errors.
- Frequency
- Count of values.
- Mean
- Average.
- Median
- Middle value.
- Missing data
- Blank values.
- Mode
- Most common value.
- Outlier
- Unusual value.
- Percent change
- Relative change.
- Pivot table
- Summary table in Excel.
- Standard deviation
- Spread of data.
- Variable
- Measured item.
- Weight
- Adjustment factor.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Statistical Assistant practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Statistical Assistant training.
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