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| In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female. Gender is an example of the |
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| Some hotels ask their guests to rate the hotel's services as excellent, very good, good, and poor. This is an example of the |
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The scale of measurement that has an inherent zero value defined is the |
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| All the data collected in a particular study are referred to as the |
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Another name for "observations" is |
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In a questionnaire, respondents are asked to mark their gender as male or female. Gender is an example of a |
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| are labels used to identify attributes of elements |
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Social security numbers consist of numeric values. Therefore, social security is an example of |
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Data collected at the same, or approximately the same, point in time are |
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Statistical studies in which researchers control variables of interest are |
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| The collection of all elements of interest in a particular study is |
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| In a sample of 800 students in a university, 240, or 30%, are Business majors. The 30% is an example of |
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In a sample of 400 students in a university, 80, or 20%, are Business majors. Based on the above information, the school's paper reported that "20% of all the students at the university are Business majors." This report is an example of |
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| The average age in a sample of 190 students at City College is 22. As a result of this sample, it can be concluded that the average age of all the students at City College |
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In a data set, the number of elements will always be the same as the number of |
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| Which scale of measurement can be either numeric or nonnumeric? |
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| The height of a building, measured in feet, is an example of |
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the collection of all items of interest in a particular study
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| both a pie chart and a bar chart |
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| Fifteen percent of the students in a school of Business Administration are majoring in Economics, 20% in Finance, 35% in Management, and 30% in Accounting. The graphical device(s) which can be used to present these data is (are) |
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A researcher is gathering data from four geographical areas designated: South = 1; North = 2; East = 3; West = 4. The designated geographical regions represent |
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| A histogram is said to be skewed to the left if it has a |
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| a graphical presentation of a frequency or relative frequency distribution |
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Which of the following provides a measure of central location for the data? |
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A numerical value used as a summary measure for a sample, such as sample mean, is known as a |
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| can be smaller, larger, or equal to the population parameter |
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Since the population size is always larger than the sample size, then the sample statistic |
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The 75th percentile is referred to as the |
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| The value which has half of the observations above it and half the observations below it is called the |
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