Sampling Variability

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Mathematics
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12th Grade
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Hard
Anthony Clark
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
These symbols represent the mean and standard deviation for which of the following distributions?
The Population
The Sample
The Sampling Distribution
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What happens to the shape of a sampling distribution of sample means as n increases?
It becomes narrower and bimodal.
It becomes narrower and more normal.
It becomes wider and skewed right.
It becomes wider and more normal.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A distribution showing the sample means of all sample of size n of a population is called
Normal Distribution
Binomial Distribution
Sampling Distribution
Uniform Distribution
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The Gallup Poll asked a random sample of 1785 adults whether they attended church during the past week. Let p-hat be the proportion of people in the sample who attended church. A newspaper report claims that 40% of all U.S. adults went to church last week. Suppose this claim is true.
What is the mean of the sampling distribution of p-hat?
0.4
0.44
0.56
0.6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
If we collected many different sample groups from the same population, we would expect each sample to give slightly different estimates for the population parameter due to the natural differences between the samples. This is known as:
Simpson's Paradox
Response bias
Stratification
Sampling variability
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A polling company is considering three sampling procedures over a specific population. Which of the following would have greatest variability?
80 samples of size 20
50 samples of size 50
20 samples of size 80
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Researchers will conduct a study of the television-viewing habits of children. They will select a random sample of children and record the number of hours of television the children watch per week. Which of the following statements is correct?
A sample of size 25 will produce more variability in the sampling distribution than a sample of size 50 will.
A sample of size 25 will produce less variability in the sampling distribution than a sample of size 50 will.
A sample of size 25 will produce a biased estimator, but a sample size of 50 will produce an unbiased estimator.
A sample of size 25 will produce a more normal curve than a sample of size 50 will.
A sample of size 25 will produce a less biased estimator than a sample of size 50.
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