Stats Test 1

are nominal levels of measurements quantitative or qualitative?

what is the difference between a parameter and a statistic?

length of time

time of first class

major field of study

course evaluation scale: poor, acceptable, good

salesperson performance: below average, average, above average

price of company’s stock

names of new products

temperature in CEO private office

assign each business in the island business directory a number, and then use a random-number table to select the businesses to be included in the sample.

use postal ZIP codes to divide the state into regions. pick a random sample of 10 ZIP codes areas and then include all the businesses in each included sample

send a team of five research assistants to bishop street downtown. let each assistant select a block or building and interview an employee from each business found. each researcher can have the rest of the day off after getting responses from 20 different businesses

use the island business directory. number all the businesses. select a starting place at random, and then use every 50th business listed until you have 100 businesses.

randomly select some MMH facilities from each five geographic regions, and then include all the patients on the discharge lists of the selected hospitals

at the beginning of the year, instruct each MMH facility to survey each 500th patient discharged

instruct each MMH facility to survey 10 discharged patients this week and send in the results

how do you determine relative frequency?

suppose the average American tosses away 4.9lbs of garbage every day. the amount of garbage tossed daily is the ______

tires salvaged from a truck accident on i-80 are on sale at a particular tire store. of the 49 tires offered for sale, 7 of them have suffered internal damage, and the remaining 42 are free of damage. the number of damaged tires for sale from the truck accident is the ________

a _______ is a number that describes a sample

a _____ is a number that describes a population

a survery of 4,000 americans found that 67% voted in the last election. the number 67% is a ________

a jokester polled 200 people and asked if they enjoyed taking polls. 79% of the people asked said no. the number 79% is a ________

a jokester polled 200 people and asked if they enjoyed taking polls. 79% of the people asked said no. the number 200 is the __________

numeric data that have order, in which we know the exact value between units, and also have an absolute zero, are called ________

discrete data in which data are neither measured nor ordered, but subjects are allocated to distinct categories, are called _______

a psychologist gauges patient’s responses on a scale of terrible, not great, okay, good, or great. what level is this an example of?

stem and leaf displays are in order of _______

does the number get put into the chart twice if it is repeated in the data in a stem and leaf chart

pareto charts go in order of

are the columns touching or spread out in a pareto chart

what goes on the bottom of a pareto chart

how do you turn the frequency into a percentage for a circle graph

how do you find class width

how do you find midpoint

how do you find cumulative frequency?

when determining class limits, what do you do