Statistics Exam 1 Pierson – Study Resources for Students

Statistics Exam 1 Pierson – Study Resources for
Students.

Frequency distribution


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1. A table or listing that shows values
and how many times each value
occurs is:

2. What is the simplest, most fundamental
level of measurement?

3. Students are given grades of A, B, C, D, or F on
Ordinal their homework assignments. The use
of letter grades would be an example of what
level of measurement?

4. The scale of measurement that assumes there interval
is an underlying scale of equal units,
but with- out an absolute zero point, is
the scale
of measurement.

5. What reflects the interval or interval/ration lev- A students GPA
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el of measurement?

6. Determining a person's level of ratio and/or interval
education by asking him/her to
indicate the number of school years
completed would involve mea-
surement on a level of
measurement.

7. A sample is? a portion of a population

8. Researchers generally want to be able Population, sample
to gen- eralize their results to a , but
to do so, they typically carry out their
research on the basis of a .

9. The marketing director of a company wants to Population
conduct research on the buying habits of the




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