LONG QUIZ BASIC STAT 1ST

Statistics help us to...

• obtain data and then organize and analyse

• obtain data and then organize, summarize, present, analyze, interpret and reach conclusions

• obtain data and then organize, summarize, present and analyze

• plan studies and experiments

It deals with the collection and interpretation of data to describe its characteristics.

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• experimental

• quasi-experimental

 Uses of Statistics EXCEPT:

• tool in many researches in education, psychology, medicine, business, agriculture, and other disciplines

• .Applied to formulate policies on admission and readmission of students, to advise a system of measurement of evaluation, to construct instruments for measuring certain aspects of student's development, to determine which among several known instruction is best for certain concepts or skills, and to determine the relationship between educational performance and socio-economic status

• 3.Statistics is useful in the areas of finance, production, quality control, promotion and advertising, and marketing.

• statistics is a collection of descriptive measures calculated from sample data according to a certain specified procedures

Your teacher has asked you to explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative observations. Which statement is correct?

• Quantitative observations use numbers, qualitative uses the senses.

• Quantitative observations use the senses, qualitative uses numbers.

• Quantitative observations use measurement, qualitative uses numbers.

• Quantitative observations use colors, qualitative uses the senses.

Marital status, beauty and quality are examples of a...

• Qualitative Data

• Quantitative Data

• Continuous Data

• Discrete Data

The petals are smooth and silky.

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• both

• neither

Which of the following data is continuous?

• The weight of a person

• Books sold every month on Amazon

• Employees working in a store

• income per hour

The speed of the car was 45 mph.

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Both

• Neither

The pendulum made 17 full swings in 30 seconds.

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Both

• Neither

If your teacher asked you to make qualitative observations about the class’s pet hamster, which group of words might be used?

• A  mass of 3 kg, 11 cm long, age of 16 months

• A  mass of 3 kg, 11 cm long, cute

• A  long hair, white and brown colored, soft

• A  temperature, length, weight