BESC 3010 Final Questions and Correct Answers

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BESC 3010 Final Questions and Correct
Answers
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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11

111

111111

Ans: Positively Skewed



Which label would be most appropriate for describing the

distribution below?



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11111

1111111

111111111

11111111111

Ans: Normal

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Which label would be most appropriate for describing the

distribution below? (A normal curve has been superimposed

on the distribution for comparison.)

Ans: Mesokurtic



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.