Quiz for LU5 - 1

Statistics is the science of ___A___, ___B___, ___C___, ___D___ and ___E___ information in order to draw conclusions / make decisions for a collection of data.

What is A, B, C, D and E?

• A: displaying

  B: summarizing

  C: collecting

  D: organizing

  E: analyzing

• A: collecting

  B: displaying

  C: organizing

  D: Summarizing

  E: analyzing

• A: displaying

  B: collecting

  C: summarizing

  D: analyzing

  E: organizing

• A: analyzing

  B: collecting

  C: organizing

  D: displaying

  E: summarizing

_______ uses method that generalize results obtained from a sample to the population and measure their reliability.

• Descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• variable

• population

Measures of central tendency include the mean, median, and mode

• True

• False

_____ is a collection of methods for organizing, displaying and presenting data by using tables, graphs and summary measures.

• Parameter

• Inferential statistics

• Descriptive Statistics

• Variable

Quantitative characteristic of the population that you’re interested in estimating or testing (such as a population mean or proportion)

• parameter

• variable

• sample

• statistics

Complete collection of all the elements in a group which is being studied.

• variable

• sample

• population

• parameter

Characteristics that being studied which assumes some values for each element.

• sample

• parameter

• statistics

• variable

Collection of a few elements drawn from a population which represent the group.

• statistics

• sample

• population

• parameter

Quantitative characteristic of a sample that often helps estimate or test the population parameter (such as a sample mean or proportion).

• sample

• statistic

• parameter

• population

Qualitative Variable - can be measured (e.g., height)

• True

• False