Descriptive Stats (Part 1)

Two general types of statistics are:

• summary and descriptive

• descriptive and inferential

• interpretive and analytical

• simple and complex

A researcher summarizes a set of data by describing the score that occurred most often. What type of statistics did the researcher use to summarize these data?

• descriptive

• interpretive

• inferential

• analytical

What type of statistics can be used to draw conclusions for a population?

• descriptive

• parameter

• inferential

• analytical

A researcher selects a ________ and uses inferential statistics to draw conclusions about the larger ________.

• sample; statistic

• parameter; population

• population; sample

• sample; population

A researcher selects a ________ and uses inferential statistics to draw conclusions about the larger ________.

• sample; statistic

• parameter; population

• population; sample

• sample; population

A characteristic in a population is called a ________, whereas a characteristic in a sample is called a ________.

• population parameter; sample statistic

• sample statistic; population parameter

• sample parameter; population statistic

• population statistic; sample parameter

Most students selected at random to a sample are women. The characteristic that most of the sample consists of women is an example of

• population parameter

• statistical anomaly

• inferential statistic

• sample statistic

A researcher measures the number of hours spent studying among students living on-campus and off-campus at UiTM. The location (on-campus, off-campus) is the ________ variable and hours spent studying is the ________ variable.

• dependent; independent

• quantitative; dependent

• independent; dependent

• quantitative; independent

A qualitative variable varies by ________; a quantitative variable varies by ________.

• class; amount

• amount; class

• counting; measuring

• measuring; counting

A researcher measure social behavior from the number of participants talk and the time (in seconds) they spent talking. The number of participants is a ________ variable; the time they spent talking is a ________ variable.

• quantitative; qualitative

• qualitative; quantitative

• qualitative; qualitative

• quantitative; quantitative