WPC 300 FINAL EXAM questions well
answered to pass
Which of the following describes the standard deviation? - correct answer ✔✔It is the square root of the
variance.
When two variables are highly positively correlated, the correlation coefficient will be _______. - correct
answer ✔✔close to 1
According to statistical notation, what does ∑ stand for? - correct answer ✔✔to act as a summation
operator
The ________ is the observation that occurs most frequently. - correct answer ✔✔mode
The difference between the first and third quartiles is referred to as the ____________. - correct answer
✔✔interquartile range
Which of the following is an example of a measure of dispersion? - correct answer ✔✔variance
Which of the following describes a positively skewed histogram? - correct answer ✔✔a histogram that
tails off toward the right
Which of the following is true for a median? - correct answer ✔✔For an even number of observations,
the median is the mean of the two middle numbers
Which of the following is an example of a sample? - correct answer ✔✔The number of IT employees out
of all employees working in an office of Google
For a normal distribution mean is _______ to median. - correct answer ✔✔equal
Which of the following proposition describes an existing theory or belief? - correct answer ✔✔Null
hypothesis
Which of the following is a Type-I error? - correct answer ✔✔The null hypothesis is actually true, but the
hypothesis test incorrectly rejects it.
In order to reject the null hypothesis, the p-value must be less than the - correct answer ✔✔Alpha
What is the confidence interval when the level of significance is 0.07? - correct answer ✔✔0.930
The WPC Sports Company has noted that the size of individual "customer order" is normally distributed
with a mean of $100 and standard deviation of $12. If a soccer team of 16 players were to make the next
batch of orders, what would be the standard error of the mean? - correct answer ✔✔3.00
You are collecting data via an online survey to improve education standard at ASU. Which of the
following methods will not result in data collection bias? - correct answer ✔✔Anonymously data
collection by hiding ASU brand in the survey question.
The central limit theorem states that if the population is normally distributed, then the - correct answer
✔✔Sampling distribution of the mean will also be normal for any sample size
Which of the following is a continuous random variable? - correct answer ✔✔The time to complete a
specific task
Which of the following is a difference between the t-distribution and the standard normal (z)
distribution? - correct answer ✔✔The t-distribution has a larger variance than the standard normal
distribution.
In classification analysis, we typically split the data into two mutually exclusive sets, known as ________,
to investigate the strength of the developed model. - correct answer ✔✔Training and validation/testing
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