Ch 5 Quiz
Which of the following tools may be used to summarize changes from a
department?
a. plot table
b. pareto chart
c. pie chart
d. pivot table - correct answer ✔d. pivot table
This type of data is also called ranked data and expresses the comparative
evaluation of various characteristics or entities and relative assignment of
each, to a class according to a set of criteria
a. nominal data
b. ordinal data
c. discrete data
d. continuous data - correct answer ✔b. ordinal data
This type of data are numerical values that represent whole numbers
a. discrete data
b. ordinal data
c.nominal data
d. continuous data - correct answer ✔a. discrete data
, Which of the following termes describe the occurence of a lot of very high or
low values in the observation that distort the calculated means in the data?
a. skewing
b. standard deviation
c. mean
d. mode - correct answer ✔a. skewing
This type of data assumes an infinite number of possible values in
measurements that have decimal values as possibilities
a. nominal data
b. ordinal data
c. discrete data
d. continuous data - correct answer ✔d. continuous data
This type of data display tools is a plotter chart of data that shows the
progress of a process over time:
a. bar graph
b. histogram
c. pie chart
d. line chart - correct answer ✔d. line chart
If there are 45 instances of patients with lung cancer last year, and you need
to draw an appropriate sample of these categories to abstract, how many
patients charts should you abstract?
Which of the following tools may be used to summarize changes from a
department?
a. plot table
b. pareto chart
c. pie chart
d. pivot table - correct answer ✔d. pivot table
This type of data is also called ranked data and expresses the comparative
evaluation of various characteristics or entities and relative assignment of
each, to a class according to a set of criteria
a. nominal data
b. ordinal data
c. discrete data
d. continuous data - correct answer ✔b. ordinal data
This type of data are numerical values that represent whole numbers
a. discrete data
b. ordinal data
c.nominal data
d. continuous data - correct answer ✔a. discrete data
, Which of the following termes describe the occurence of a lot of very high or
low values in the observation that distort the calculated means in the data?
a. skewing
b. standard deviation
c. mean
d. mode - correct answer ✔a. skewing
This type of data assumes an infinite number of possible values in
measurements that have decimal values as possibilities
a. nominal data
b. ordinal data
c. discrete data
d. continuous data - correct answer ✔d. continuous data
This type of data display tools is a plotter chart of data that shows the
progress of a process over time:
a. bar graph
b. histogram
c. pie chart
d. line chart - correct answer ✔d. line chart
If there are 45 instances of patients with lung cancer last year, and you need
to draw an appropriate sample of these categories to abstract, how many
patients charts should you abstract?
