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Test Bank for
Business Statistics
For Contemporary
Decision Making, 3rd
Canadian Edition, 3e
Ken Black, Tiffany
Bayley, Ignacio
Castillo (All Chapters
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, CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
TRUE-FALSE STATEMENTS

1. Virtually all areas of business use statistics in decision making.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


2. The complete collection of all entities under study is called the sample.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


3. A portion or subset of the entities under study is called the statistic.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


4. A descriptive measure of the population is called a parameter.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy




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, Introduction to Statistics 1-2


Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


5. A census is the process of gathering data on all the entities in the population.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


6. Statistics is commonly divided into two branches called descriptive statistics and summary
statistics.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


7. Statistics is commonly divided into two branches called descriptive statistics and inferential
statistics.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


8. A descriptive measure of the sample is called a statistic.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy




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, 1-3 Test Bank for Business Statistics, Third Canadian Edition


Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


9. Gathering data from a sample to reach conclusions about the population from which the
sample was drawn is called descriptive statistics.

Answer: False

Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


10. Gathering data from a sample to reach conclusions about the population from which the
sample was drawn is called inferential statistics.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


11. The basis for inferential statistics is the ability to make decisions about population
parameters without having to complete a census of the population.

Answer: True

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: Define important statistical terms, including population, sample, and
parameter, as they relate to descriptive and inferential statistics.
Section Reference: 1.1 Basic Statistical Concepts
Blooms: Knowledge
AACSB: Analytic


12. All numerical data must be analyzed statistically in the same way because all of them are
represented by numbers.

Answer: False




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