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Statistics Vocabulary

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Attribute such as hair color, eye color, religion, favorite movie, gender, and so on.

a)

Quantitative

b)

Procedures

c)

Populations

d)

Qualitative

2.

20 subjects were taken from a population with an equal number

of males and females.

a)

Simple Random Sample

b)

Sample of Convenience

c)

Information

d)

Systematic Sample

3.

Variables such as number of children in a household are

a)

Discrete

b)

Continuous

4.

For example, when classifying people according to their favorite color, there is no sense in which

green is placed “ahead of” blue.

a)

Nominal

b)

Ordinal

5.

A researcher wishing to measure consumers' satisfaction with their microwave

ovens might ask them to specify their feelings as either “very dissatisfied,”

“somewhat dissatisfied,” “somewhat satisfied,” or “very satisfied.”

a)

Nominal

b)

Ordinal

6.

What is measured on each experimental unit?

a)

Outcome

b)

Problems

7.

A sample is typically a small subset of the

a)

Population

b)

Variable

c)

Reason

d)

Values

8.

The ______________ of a class is the average of its lower class limit and the lower class limit of the next class.

a)

Sum

b)

Cumulative

c)

Midpoint

d)

Ogive

9.

______ is really pronounced "Oh, jive" not "OG".

a)

Lower class limit

b)

Upper class limit

c)

Ogive

d)

Frequency

10.

A graph that can be used to give a rough impression of the shape of a data set.

a)

Tally

b)

Frequency

c)

Dot Plot

d)

Relative Frequency

11.

The _________ of a category is the frequency of the category divided by the sum of all the frequencies

a)

Pie Chart

b)

Distribution

c)

Relative Frequency

d)

Bar Graph

12.

A type of bar chart that compares data with the bars touching one another is a _____________.

a)

Pie Chart

b)

Pareto Chart

c)

Histogram

d)

Dot Plot

13.

Is the color of an MP3 player nominal or ordinal?

a)

Nominal

b)

Ordinal

14.

The TV columnist for a local newspaper invites readers to log on to a website to vote for their favorite TV newscaster.

a)

Voluntary response sample

b)

Seed

c)

Ideas

d)

Cluster Sample