3.2 Classwork

What is a smaller, representative group drawn from a population?

• unit

• sample

• parameter

• statistic

Tags

CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

What are characteristics that cannot be defined by a number, such as shape or color?

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• categorical variables

• numerical variables

What is the term in statistics for the entire collection or group of individuals being studied?

• population

• sample

• parameter

• statistic

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

What is a census?

• A tool used to collect statistical data
• Statistics collected from an entire population
• The factual information collected from a survey or other source 
• A group chosen from a population

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.B.5A

What is a survey?

• process of collecting statistical data from a small group of a population

• Statistics collected from an entire population

• An element or feature that can vary

• A person chosen from a population

Tags

CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Questioning students as they leave a university library, a researcher asks 358 students about their drinking habits.

This is what type of sample?

• cluster

• convenience

• systematic

• stratified

Tags

CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

A teacher wants to know the average time spent doing homework by the students in her class of 20 girls and 5 boys, so she randomly selects five students from the class to survey, paying no attention to their gender.
This is a form of:

• Cluster Sampling
• Systematic Sampling
• Stratified Sampling
• Simple Random Sampling

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

A U.S. senator from Maine wants to find out the opinion of the voters in his state on issues concerning education.  The office of the senator passes out surveys on ten street corners in the five major cities in the state of Maine.  Is this random?

• Yes
• No

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3

Leslie surveyed the 9 youngest students in the elementary school.  Is this sample of the students in the school likely to be representative of all the students in the school?

• yes
• no

Tags

CCSS.7.SP.A.1

CCSS.HSS.IC.A.1

Sporting Illustrated collects data on its readers by asking them to fill out and send in a survey from the June issue.

• Convenience

• Systematic

• Voluntary

• Simple Random

Tags

CCSS.HSS.IC.B.3