Quiz 1 Review

What is the definition of "population"

• Part of a population and should be representive of the whole population.

• the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities

• The whole of a group being studied

• not representative of the population

A statistical inference is

• a guess

• taking a conclusion from a sample and applying it to the population

• taking a conclusion from a population and applying it to a sample

• designing and creating a statistical experiment

What is statistics?

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Which of the following is NOT a branch of statistics

• Data collection

• Descriptive Statistics

• Inferential Statistics

• Experimental Design

The science of collecting and analyzing data is ____

• statistics

• statistical question

• biology

• forenzics

The information being collected is called

• variability

• tally

• data

• graph

Data must _____

• be numeric

• be plural

• have meaning

• be non numeric

This type of question expects a variety of answers.

• rhetorical question

• statistical question

An unknown characteristic about a population is called a ______.

• statistic

• parameter

• null hypothesis

• alternative hypothesis

An unknown characteristic about a sample is called a ______.

• parameter

• statistic

• null hypothesis

• alternate hypothesis