STATS-260: FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Statistical Inference - ANSWER✔✔-Process of drawing inferences about the population based on the
information taken from the sample
Ordinal scale of measurement has the properties of: - ANSWER✔✔-Nominal scale
In experimental studies, the variable of Interest... - ANSWER✔✔-Must be numerical
Observational Studies - ANSWER✔✔-Statistical studies in which researchers do not control variables of
interest
Arithmetic operations are inappropriate for... - ANSWER✔✔-Categorical data
Data - ANSWER✔✔-Are the raw material of statistics
Relative Frequency Distribution - ANSWER✔✔-A tabular summary of data showing the fraction or
proportion of observations in each of several nonoverlapping categories or classes
Relative Frequency Distribution - ANSWER✔✔-A tabular summary of data showing the number
(frequency) of observations in each of several classes
Constructing a frequency distribution - ANSWER✔✔-(Largest data value - smallest data value)/number of
classes
Categorical Data - ANSWER✔✔-Provides labels/names for categories of like items
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