Quiz 1 STA111

The characteristics of individuals or items about which we collect information are called population.

• True

• False

There are two types of statistics which are inferential statistics and descriptive statistics.

• True

• False

An element is an object in which a measurement is taken.

• True

• False

Sample consists of all subjects that are being studied.

• True

• False

Statistics is the science of conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize, analyze, interpret and draw conclusions from data.

• True

• False

Sampling frame is a list of the elements belonging to the population from which the sample will be drawn

• True

• False

For the following questions, identify whether descriptive or inferential statistics have been used.

"A study based a random sample has revealed that the school children are obese because they always preferred fast foods"

• Descriptive Statistics

• Inferential Statistics

Inferential statistics is a method of making inferences about a population based on samples.

• True

• False