Statistics in Psychology

A statement about a population parameter to be subjected to test and, on the outcome of the test, to be retained or rejected is known as __________

• Sample

• Hypothesis

• Inference

the complete set of observations about which an investigator wishes to draw conclusions is called ___________

• Statistics

• Parameter

• Population

What is sampling distribution?

• a theoretical relative frequency distribution of the values of a statistic that would be obtained

  by chance from an infinite number of samples of a particular size drawn from a given population

• when there are only two possible events, the distribution that shows each possible outcome and the probability of

  each

• to draw a conclusion about a population

  parameter from a sample taken from that population

Sample is descriptive index of a population.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

parameter is a descriptive index of a population.

A team of educationists want to know if the new mathematical syllabus is difficult for 9th CBSE students. Which statistics they should use?

• descriptive statistics

• Inferential Statistics

• None of the above

A team of educationists want to know if the new mathematical syllabus is difficult for 9th CBSE students. They selected only 5 students from each school for the study. Those 5 students are...

• Parameters

• Population

• Sample