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Stat 200 Final Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Stat 200 Final Exam Questions And Answers
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"Statistical methods may be described as methods for drawing conclusions
about _____________________ based on ____________________ computed from
the _______________________." ANS✔✔ Populations, Statistics, Samples
"The entire group of objects or people about which information is wanted is
called the ______________________. Individual members are called
________________. The ______________ is the part that is actually examined i
order to gather information." ANS✔✔ Population, Subjects, Samples
"The unknown value of the variable in a population is called
__________________. In order to determine an estimate known as the
_______________, we draw a ____________________ from the population."
ANS✔✔ Parameter, Statistic, Sample
All of the following are reasons why we use samples in statistics as opposed
to the entire population except: ANS✔✔ It is often easy to take a census and
gather information from an entire population
You record the age, marital status, religious affiliation, earned income and
number of children of a sample of 1463 women. The number and type of
variables you have recorded is: ANS✔✔ Three: Age, Earned Income, and
Number of Children
Which one of the following variables is not quantitive?
1. Final grade on the course (A, B, C, D, or F)
, Solution 2024/2025
Pepper
2. Score on the final exam (out of 100 points)
3. The total number of points earned in the class (i.e., the total of points on
all exams and quizzes in the course, out of 500 points)
4. The number of classes a student missed ANS✔✔ Final grade on a course
(A, B, C, D, or F)
Identify the variable number of siblings as: ANS✔✔ Quantitative Discrete
A new headache remedy is given to a group of 55 patients who suffer
severe headaches. Of these, 40 report that the remedy is very helpful in
treating their headaches. From this information, you can correctly conclude:
ANS✔✔ Nothing, because there is no control group for comparison
Each of the 30 NBA teams has 15 players. A sample of 60 players is to be
chose as follows. Each team will be asked to place 15 cards with their
player's names into a har and randomly draw out two names, The two
names from each team will be combined to make up the sample. Will this
method result in a simple random sample of the 450 basketball players?
ANS✔✔ No, because not each group of 60 players has the same chance of
being selected.
The scores on a statistics exam are strongly skewed to the left. It is best to
describe the distribution by reporting: ANS✔✔ The Five-Number Summary
A sample of student opinions at a Big Ten University was obtained by first
dividing all students into one of the 200 possible majors, and then doing a
SRS (Simple Random Sample) of the majors to select only 10 majors. Once
the 10 majors were selected, every student in these 10 majors was selected
to be part of the study. This kind of sample is called a: ANS✔✔ Cluster
Sample
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