Basic Statistics

Summarization

• Mean

• Frequency Distribution

• Pie Chart

• Sample

Qualitative research focus on

• Experimental data

• Beliefs

• Attitudes

• Statistics

Refer to the data below and answer the question

9, 10, 11. 11, 12, 15, 16

What is the Mean, Median, Mode and Range?

The frequently hardest to overcome element when trying to establish a cause and effect.

• temporal order

• empirical relationship

• nonspurious

• none of these

It is recommended in SPSS to use the frequencies function rather than ______ due to the fact that the Frequencies function offers a broader array of descriptive statistics as well as charts and graphs.

• crosstabs

• descriptives

• histograms

• none of these

The level of measurement that is numeric, rank-orderable, and has equal intervals between adjacent points, but that does not have a true zero is ______.

• nominal

• ratio

• interval

• ordinal

The three basic shapes a distribution can take are which of the following?

• a positive skew, negative skew, and normal

• normal, bifurcated skew, and midpoint of the magnitude skew

• midpoint of the magnitude, normal, and bifurcated

• midpoint of the magnitude, ambiguous, and bifurcated

A set of raw data has a mean of 5.01 and a median of 2.35. What is the shape of this distribution?

• negative skewed

• positively skewed

• normal

• concave

A hypothesis is a(n):

• testable prediction that gives direction to research
• •way to organize facts.
• process of linking facts to deeper principles
• set of principles that explains newly discovered facts

Which of the following is the level of measurement of the variable number of times arrested?

• nominal variable

• ordinal variable

• interval variable

• ratio variable