Introduction to statistics Exam Questions Answered Correctly Latest Version
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Introduction to statistics Exam Questions Answered Correctly Latest Version
data - Answers _____ are collections of observations, such as measurements, genders, or survey responses. (A single _____ value is called a datum, a term that does not see very much use)
statistics - Answers _____ is the...
Introduction to statistics Exam Questions Answered Correctly Latest Version 2024-2025
data - Answers _____ are collections of observations, such as measurements, genders, or survey
responses. (A single _____ value is called a datum, a term that does not see very much use)
statistics - Answers _____ is the science of planning studies and experiments; obtaining data; and then
organizing , summarizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting those data and then drawing
conclusions based on them.
population - Answers A _____ is the complete collection of all measurements or data that are being
considered
census - Answers A _____ is the collection of data from every member of the population
sample - Answers A _____ is a subcollection of members selected from a population
Voluntary response sample - Answers A _____ ( or self-selected sample) is one in which the respondents
themselves decide whether to be included.
parameter - Answers A _____ is a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of population
statistic - Answers A _____ is a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a sample
quantitative - Answers _____ (or numerical) data consist of numbers representing counts or
measurements
categorical - Answers _____ (or qualitative or attribute) data consist of names or labels that are not
numbers representing counts or measurements.
discrete - Answers _____ data result when the data values are quantitative and the number of values is
finite or "countable." (If there are infinitely many values, the collection of values is countable if it is
possible to count them individually, such as the number of tosses of a coin before getting tails.)
continuous - Answers _____ (numerical) data result from infinitely many possible quantitative values,
where the collection of values is not countable. (That is, it is impossible to count the individual items
because at least some of them are on a _____ scale, such as the length from 0 cm. to 12cm.)
nominal - Answers The _____ level of measurement is characterized by data that consist of names,
labels, or categories only. The data cannot be arranged in an ordering scheme (such as low to high).
Ex: Eye colors
ordinal - Answers Data are in the _____ level of measurement if they can be arranged in some order, but
differences (obtained by subtraction) between data values either cannot be determined or are
meaningless.
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