BESC 3010 Final Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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BESC 3010 Final Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: In a sample of women, the number of children that each woman
has is an example of which level of measurement?
Answer: Ratio


Question:
Military ranks are an example of what level of measurement?
Answer: Ordinal


Question:
Gender is an example of what level of measurement?
Answer: Nominal


Question:
Which label would be most appropriate for describing the distribution below?
1
11
111
111111
Answer: Positively Skewed


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


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11111
1111111
111111111
11111111111
Answer: Normal


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


Question:
In which of the following situations is the median an appropriate measure of
central tendency?
Answer: The researcher has ordinal data


Question:
Which of the following is NOT true about the abnormal distribution?
Answer: Kurtosis = 1


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


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