Statistics Quiz Review

A researcher stood at a school parking lot entrance to see if the color of a car is related to the driver not wearing a seatbelt.

• Observational Study

• Experiment

A professor finds that people who are obese have higher cholesterol levels than those who are not obese.

• Observational Study

• Experiment

Four groups of randomly selected people are assigned a different diet. After six months, the blood pressures of each group are compared.

• Observational Study

• Experiment

This sample consists of units of the population that are easily accessible.

• Cluster

• Convenience

• Volunteer

• Observational

This sample consists of units of the population that chose to respond.

• mandatory

• census

• volunteer

• unbiased

Every possible group of units of the required size has the same chance of being the selected sample as any other sample of the same size.

• Simple Random 

• Thoughtful

• Typical

• Proportional

Identify the sampling design: The LFCC registrar wants to investigate attitudes of their graduates.  The registrar randomly selects 100 names from each of the four past graduating classes.

• cluster

• volunteer

• stratified

• simple random

Identify the sampling design: School admin conducted a survey on post-graduation plans.  Students of senior class 2018 were listed in order by class rank.  The school selected a random number between 1 and 15, obtaining a number 11.  Then, they selected every 11th student for the survey.

• cluster

• volunteer

• systematic

• simple random

Identify the sampling design: Mr. Rhoades puts all of his students' names in a hat and randomly selects one without looking.

• cluster

• volunteer

• systematic

• simple random

Identify the sampling design: Student government randomly samples 25 students of each of the four classes.

• stratified

• volunteer

• systematic

• simple random