The hotel chain has five different categories of quality (one star, two stars, three stars,
four stars, and five stars) by which the chain's hotels are categorized. The consultant
randomly selects 50 guests from each of the five categories. Each of these guests is
given a survey to complete. - ✔️✔️Stratified Sample
After a guest has checked out of the hotel, the hotel sends the guest an email with a
copy of their receipt and a link to a satisfaction survey. The guest is asked to complete
the online survey. Satisfaction data are analyzed for all guests who complete the
survey. - ✔️✔️Voluntary Response Sample
Number of students who were enrolled in BUAL 2600 for Fall Semester, 2017. -
✔️✔️Cross sectional data
What level of measurement is temperature measured on the Fahrenheit scale? -
✔️✔️Interval
What level of measurement is an automobile license plate number? - ✔️✔️Nominal
What level of measurement is income earned this week at your job? - ✔️✔️Ratio
What level of measurement are the top 3 airline companies in U.S.? - ✔️✔️Ordinal
Voting behavior in Lee County in each election for the past 4 years. - ✔️✔️Time series
data
Below is a sample question from a recent survey. Determine whether the survey
question would generate categorical (qualitative) or quantitative data.
How many people live in your household?
_____ 1 person
_____ 2 - 3 people
_____ 4 - 6 people
_____ 7+ people - ✔️✔️Categorical data
Below is a sample question from a recent survey. Determine whether the survey
question would generate categorical (qualitative) or quantitative data.
, How many music downloads did you purchase last year? - ✔️✔️Categorical Data
Below is a sample question from a recent survey. Determine whether the survey
question would generate categorical (qualitative) or quantitative data.
How many books did you purchase last year? _______ (enter total number for year) -
✔️✔️Quantitive Data
Below is a sample question from a recent survey. Determine whether the survey
question would generate categorical (qualitative) or quantitative data.
What is your age? _______ (enter in years) - ✔️✔️Quantitative Data
The consultant goes to the hotel closest to her office. She asks each guest checking out
that day about his/her experience at the hotel. - ✔️✔️Convenience sample
The hotel assigns a unique transaction number for every guest for each stay in one of
their hotels. The consultant uses a random number generator to attach a random
number to each transaction number for all the transactions conducted at the chain's
hotels for one day. She sorts the random numbers in descending order. The first 500
guests receive a survey to complete. - ✔️✔️Simple Random Sample
The hotel manager decides to give a customer satisfaction survey to every 10th person
who is checking out from the hotel after randomly choosing the first guest. -
✔️✔️Systematic Sampling
You administer a survey to a sample which includes the entire population. What is this
type of sample called? - ✔️✔️Census
When administering a survey, you have a question that doesn't take into account all
possible answers. This will cause you to have ______________________. -
✔️✔️Measurement errors
Which type of statistics summarizes data and presents it in a graph? - ✔️✔️Descriptive
Which of the following types of sampling should be used when the questions of pollsters
are likely to elicit false answers? - ✔️✔️Random response sampling
A student has completed 20 courses in the College of Business. Her grades in the 20
courses are shown below.
ABABC
CCBBB