Statistical Methods and Data Collection

Who said that statistics as the aggregate of facts affected to mark extent by the multiplicity of causes?

• Professor Seligman

• Professor Horace Secrist

Which of the following is an inferential statistics?

• the science of choosing the best sample from the population

• presenting the results using graphs or tables

• frequency distribution

• measures of central tendency

What is quantitative data?

• Data that has to do with numbers

• Data that has to do with categories

What is qualitative data?

• Data that has to do with numbers

• Data that has to do with categories

What is raw information collected for analysis?

• Data

• Analysis

What is the act of studying or examining something in detail, in order to discover or understand more about it?

• Data

• Analysis

What does statistics deal with?

• Collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data

• Only the collection of data

Primary data collection often provides more reliable and specific results than secondary data.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Examples of primary data. Select 2 answers.

• CENSUS

• articles from a private sector

• 
  reports from government

• 
  interview

It is a complete set of data that is collected from the field

• Population

• Sample