Stats Chapter 1 Practice Quiz

Which best describes a population?

• A subset of a larger group

• the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data to make decisions.

• the collection of all outcomes, responses, measurements, or

  counts that are of interest.

• Information coming from observations, counts, measurements, or responses

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

What is statistics?

• A word deriving from the latin word for statue

• the organiziation, summarization and display of data

• the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting numbers to make decisions.

• the science of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data to make decisions.

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

What is a sample?

• A subset of a population

• the collection of all outcomes, responses, measurements, or

  counts that are of interest.

• making an inference about a population

• the organiziation, summarization and display of data

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CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Which is NOT a level of data classification

• nomial level

• ordinal level

• qualitative level

• interval level

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

Which is NOT a method of data collection?

• confounding variable

• survey

• observational study

• simulation

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

A placebo can be administered using what data collection technique

• survey

• experiment

• observational study

• descriptive statistics

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Choose all the methods of data collection discussed in the text:

• simulation

• sample

• survey

• confounding variable

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Choose every option that is a data collection technique:

• treatement

• experiment

• simulation

• observational study

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Which are levels of data classification?

• ratio level

• nominal level

• integral level

• descriptive level

What does SRS stand for?

• Sample Random Survey

• Sample Random Surroundings

• Simple Random Survey

• Simple Random Sample

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CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3