Quiz about Introduction to Statistics

Question 1

hair color of women on high school tennis team

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 2

ages of students in a statistics class

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Ratio

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

Question 3

temperatures of 22 selected refrigerators

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Interval

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Ratio

Question 4

number of pages in your statistic book

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Interval

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Ratio

Question 5

marriage status of the faculty at the local community college

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 6

list of 1247 social security numbers

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 7

the ratings of a movie ranging from "poor" to "good" to "excellent"

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Ordinal

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Nominal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 8

list of zip codes for Chicago

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 9

the amount of fat (in grams) in 44 cookies

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Ratio

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

Question 10

What is the 4th step in the 4 step problem solving process?

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Interpret the data

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Ask a question

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Analyze the data

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Organize the data

Question 11

Parameter is use for

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population

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statistics

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sample

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measurement

Question 12

The purpose of descriptive statistics is to

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describe data

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make decision

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make estimation

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make hypothesis testing

Question 13

Statistical method is divided into three

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False

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True

Question 14

Ordinal is a level measurement for

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categories with some order

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differences but no natural starting point

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differences and a natural starting point

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categories only

Question 15

Qualitative data is a

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measurement that cannot be measured on a natural numerical scale

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recorded on natural occurring numerical scale

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for population only

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for sample only

Question 16

Example of quantitative data is

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number of defective items

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gender of students in uthm

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methods of payments

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level of satisfaction

Question 17

A sampling frame is a collection of sampling units drawn from a sampling

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False

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True

Question 18

A sample random sampling is a sampling that each possible sample is equally in number of size

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True

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False

Question 19

A group of sampling that close to each other is called systematic sampling

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False

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True

Question 20

A science of collection, presentation of data.

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Statistics

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Population

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Analysis of Data

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None of the above

Question 21

Refers to the collection of facts where the researcher gets information.

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Collection of Data

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Organization of Data

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Analysis of Data

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None of the above

Question 22

Refers to the organization of data into tables, graphs and charts.

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Presentation of Data

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Collection of Data

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Collation of Data

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None of the above

Question 23

Statistics which is concerned with summarizing values to describe group characteristics of the data.

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Descriptive

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Inferential

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Parametric

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Non Parametric

Question 24

Refers to drawing of conclusions or generalizations from the analysed data.

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Interpretation of Data

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Analysis of Data

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Collection of Data

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Non Parametric

Question 25

Statistics which is concerned with a higher order of critical thinking and judgment.

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Inferential

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Descriptive

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Parametric

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Non Parametric

Question 26

Process of extracting relevant information from a set of data.

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Analysis of Data

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Collection of Data

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Interpretation of Data

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Non Parametric

Question 27

Inferential technique which make weaker assumptions using nominal and ordinal scales.

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Non Parametric

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Descriptive

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Inferential

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Parametric

Question 28

A researcher is classifying data object watch for its color and size. What type of classification is this?

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two-way classification

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Ranking the object

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one-way classification

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none of these

Question 29

In this measurement, zero is just another point in the scale.

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Ratio

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Nominal

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Ordinal

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Interval

Question 30

Level of measurement where there is logical ordering or categories.

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Ordinal

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Nominal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 31

When the temperature is 0 degree celcius, which of the following is not true?

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there is no temperature

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zero is just another point in the scale

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an example of interval scale

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freezing point of water

Question 32

Which is an example of ratio scale?

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grades

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time

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gender

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all of these

Question 33

If a research uses parametric statistics, then the data must be?

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either interval or ratio

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Must be nominal of ordinal

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either nominal or interval

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either ordinal or ratio

Question 34

Ranking system is part of which classification?

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Ordinal

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Nominal

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Interval

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Ratio

Question 35

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting 5 girls and 7 boys.  This type of sampling is called?

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Stratified

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Systematic

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Simple

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Cluster

Question 36

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list.  Which type of sampling method is this?

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Systematic

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Simple

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Stratified

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Cluster

Question 37

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting all students sitting at group 1 and group 5 in her classroom.  This sampling technique is called?

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Cluster

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Simple

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Stratified

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Systematic

Question 38

Mrs. Trahan samples her class by picking 10 numbers from her hat and each number is assigned to a student. This is ______________ random sampling.

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Simple

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Systematic

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Stratified

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Cluster

Question 39

Farmer Joe separates his apple tree farm into 10 regions.  He counts the number of apples produced in just one of the regions and uses that estimate to predict the number of apples produced on the whole farm.  This is _______ sampling.

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Cluster

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Simple

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Stratified

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Systematic

Question 40

Farmer Joe randomly picks 100 trees using a random number generator to estimate the number of apples produced by his apple trees.  This is ______________ sampling.

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Simple

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Stratified

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Cluster

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Systematic

Question 41

In order to use samples to estimate something from the population, the sample should be _________________ the population.

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representative of

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exactly the same as

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nothing like

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larger than

Question 42

When one examines the entire population instead of a subgroup of the population, this is called a ____________.

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Census

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Sampling

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Bias

Question 43

Farmer Joe separates his farm into 10 regions.  He then randomly selected 5 trees from each region to estimate the number of apples produced on his apple tree farm.  This is _____________ sampling.

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Stratified

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Cluster

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Systematic

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Simple

Question 44

A part of the entire population size taken by a researcher.

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Sample

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Portion

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Part

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Group

Question 45

The process of selecting that specific part of the population size.

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Sampling

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RCBD

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CRD

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Grouping

Question 46

This sampling technique makes use of taking a unit at random from the first k unit and every kth subsequent unit.

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Systematic

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Stratified

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Simple

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Multi-stage

Question 47

This type of sampling subdivides the population into subpopulations.

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Stratified

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Systematic

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Simple

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Cluster

Question 48

This type of sampling makes use of blocks or districts as a sampling frame in order to cut down a huge population size.

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Cluster

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Systematic

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Stratified

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Simple

Question 49

This is a reason for sampling which emphasizes on saving time, resources and effort.

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Economy

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Practicality

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Necessity

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Ethicality

Question 50

A reason for sampling which gives importance to the fact that testing might be destructive to a population. Therefore, only a portion of that population will be affected.

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Necessity

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Practicality

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Economy

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Comprehensiveness

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