mid test 2016

Descriptive and inferential  is the Classifications  of statistics.

• True

• False

• No answer

Inference of data the process of extracting relevant information from

the summarized data, mainly through the use of elementary mathematical operation.

• True

• False

• No answer

Population it is the collection of all possible observations of a specified characteristic of interest (possessing certain common property) and being under study.

• True

• False

• No answer

Census  it is a subset of the population, selected using some sampling technique in such a way that they represent the population.

• True

• False

• No answer

Variable it is an item of interest that can take on many different numerical values.

• True

• False

• No answer

Those are the following are some uses of statistics:

. It presents facts in a definite and precise form.

. Data reduction.

. Measuring the magnitude of variations in data.

. Furnishes a technique of comparison

• True

• False

• No answer

Measurement scale refers to the property of value  assigned to the data based on the properties of order, distance and fixed zero.

• True

• False

• No answer

Which one of the choice is type of scale measurement.

• Ordinal

• Nominal

• Interval

• All

• None

Military status is an example of __________ scale measurement type.

• ration

• Interval

• Ordinal

Data measured or collect by the investigator or the user directly from the source is ______.

• Primary data

• Secondary data