AP Stats (Advanced Placement Statistics)

Definition

AP Stats is an advanced high school course that covers topics such as data analysis, probability, and statistical inference. It prepares students for college-level statistics courses and offers opportunities to earn college credit.

Related terms

Sampling: The process of selecting a subset of individuals or items from a larger population to gather information about the whole.

Hypothesis Testing: A statistical method used to make inferences about a population based on sample data.

Confidence Interval: An interval estimate that provides a range of plausible values for an unknown population parameter.