Statistics in Education

According to this article, what is STATISTICS?

• Statistics is the universal language of the sciences that involves information, numbers, visual graphics to summarize information and its interpretation. In other words, the science of collecting, describing, and interpreting data.

• Statistics is a method of analyzing and collecting data that is not easily visible and must be described by using mathematics and other sciences.

• Statistics is using data, concluding data and making inferential theories from the information that has a positive normal distribution.

• Statistics involves using information, numbers, and descriptive conclusions to help businesses make corrective business decisions based on the descriptive techniques that create perfect graphs.

The POPULATION in statistics is best described by...

• a collection, or set, of individuals, objects, or events whose properties are to be analyzed

• the total number of people that live in a particular city

• the incomplete collection of individuals or objects that are of interest to the sample collector

• a collection of people that are being analyzed for membership on a list of particular elements to be studied

A sample is...

• a subset of a population

• an infinite selection of a population

• a characteristic of a population

• a data value generated by the statistical information

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A variable (or response variable) is

• a characteristic of interest about each individual element of a population or sample

• a characteristic that is irrelevant to the collection of the data

• a characteristic that changes when the data is collected

• a characteristic or trait that will be ignored in a sample population

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An experiment is...

• a planned activity whose results yield a set of data

• a numerical value that summarizes all of the data of an entire population

• the set of values collected from the variable from each of the elements that belong to the sample

• A numerical value summarizing the sample data

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Data is...

• a planned activity whose results yield a set of data

• a numerical value that summarizes all of the data of an entire population

• the set of values collected from the variable from each of the elements that belong to the sample

• A numerical value summarizing the sample data

According to a random telephone survey of 200 adults, 75% of all working adults in the U.S. are satisfied with their current job. What is the population in this survey?

• 200 adults
• adults in the U.S.
• 75% of adults

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What is the MEAN for this data?

• 80
• 1040
• 13
• 81

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What is the highest score in the class?

• 88%
• 100%
• 13
• 98%

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How many students received a score of 94%? 

• 94
• 4
• 1
• 2

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