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In a sample of women, the number of children that each
woman has is an example of which level of
measurement?

Ans: Ratio



Military ranks are an example of what level of
measurement?

Ans: Ordinal



Gender is an example of what level of measurement?

Ans: Nominal



Which label would be most appropriate for describing
the distribution below?

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Ans: Positively Skewed



Which label would be most appropriate for describing
the distribution below?



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1111111

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Ans: Normal



Which label would be most appropriate for describing
the distribution below? (A normal curve has been
superimposed on the distribution for comparison.)

Ans: Mesokurtic




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In which of the following situations is the median an
appropriate measure of central tendency?

Ans: The researcher has ordinal data



Which of the following is NOT true about the abnormal
distribution?

Ans: Kurtosis = 1



The visual difference between bar graphs and histograms
is that in __________ the bars touch each other and in
__________ the bars do not touch.

Ans: Histograms, bar graphs



Compared to the normal distribution, a leptokurtic
distribution has a ___________ than the normal distribution.

Ans: Taller peak



If the dots on a scatterplot generally extend from the
bottom left to the upper right of the diagram but are very
widely spread out, the researcher would report the
correlation as:

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