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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a population?
A tool used to collect statistical data
Statistics collected from an entire population
All the people or objects on which data is collected
A group chosen from a population
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a census?A tool used to collect statistical dataStatistics collected from an entire populationThe factual information collected from a survey or other sourceA group chosen from a population
- 3. Multiple Choice
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
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is statistics?
The science of collecting and analysing data
Statistics collected from an entire population
An element or feature that can vary
A group chosen from a population
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat is data?The practise of collecting and analysing dataThe factual information collected from a survey or other sourceAn element or feature that can varyA group chosen from a population
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is a sample?
A tool used to collect statistical data
Statistics collected from an entire population
The factual information collected from a survey or other source
A subgroup chosen from a population
- 7. Multiple Choice
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
- 8. Multiple ChoiceChosen at random, 580 customers at a car dealership are contacted and asked their opinions of the service they received.
This is what type of sample?conveniencestratifiedsimple random samplecluster - 9. Multiple ChoiceA 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 SamplingSystematic SamplingStratified SamplingSimple Random Sampling - 10. Multiple ChoiceA poll about favorite sports is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. 23% of respondents said that baseball was their favorite sport.
The "100" is the ______Sample SizePopulation SizeStatisticParameter - 11. Multiple ChoiceA poll about favorite sports is taken from 100 seniors in a high school where the senior class has 575 students. 23% of respondents said that baseball was their favorite sport.
The "575" is the ______Sample SizePopulation SizeStatisticParameter - 12. Multiple ChoiceA/an __________________ is a fake treatment given to the Control Group so that its members can't figure out that they're in the Control Group.placebosurveydummy variablefalse positive
- 13. Multiple Choice
The process of collecting data by asking questions
sample
respondent
clinical study
poll
- 14. Multiple Choice
An error that comes from selecting a sample that does not represent the population
confounding variable
sample bias
nonresponse bias
placebo
- 15. Multiple Choice
The group of subjects in a trial that do not recieve any treatment
control group
treatment group
controlled study
blind study
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