Chapter 1 and 4

Question 1

Blank is the science of gathering, describing, and analyzing data

Answer 1

Statistics

Question 2

A blank is a study in which data are obtained from every member of the population.

Answer 2

Census

Question 3

A blank is a particular group of Interest

Answer 3

Population

Question 4

A blank is a subset of population from which data are collected

Answer 4

Sample

Question 5

A blank is a numerical description of a population characteristic.

Answer 5

Parameter

Question 6

A blank is a numerical description of a sample characteristic

Answer 6

Statistic ( sample statistic)

Question 7

A blank is variable or characteristic that changes among members of the population

Answer 7

Variable

Question 8

Blank are counts, measurements, or observations gathered about a specific variable in a population in order to study it.

Answer 8

Data

Question 9

Blank, as a science, Gathers, sorts, summarizes, and displays the data

Answer 9

Descriptive statistics

Question 10

Blank, as a science, involves using descriptive statistics to estimate the population parameters

Answer 10

Inferential statistics

Question 11

Blank data consists of labels or descriptions of traits

Answer 11

Qualitative (categorical or attribute)

Question 12

Blank data that consists of counts or measurements

Answer 12

Quantitative (numerical)

Question 13

Blank of measurement are qualitative data consists of labels or names

Answer 13

Nominal level

Question 14

Blank of measurements are qualitative data that can be arranged in meaningful order, but calculations such as addition or division do not make sense

Answer 14

Ordinal data

Question 15

Blank of measurement are quantitative data that can be arranged in meaningful order, and differences between data entries are meaningful

Answer 15

Interval level

Question 16

Blank of measurements are qualitative data that can be ordered , differences between data entries are meaningful, and 0 point indicates the absence of something

Answer 16

Ratio level

Question 17

Correlation doesn’t mean causation

Answer 17

Misleading conclusion

Question 18

Not enough to represent the population

Answer 18

Small sample sizes

Question 19

Can be worded it to be misleading or bias

Answer 19

Loaded questions

Question 20

Can lead respondents to draw incorrect conclusion

Answer 20

Order of Question

Question 21

Refusal to respond by participants affect data

Answer 21

Non responses

Question 22

Can affect results

Answer 22

Missing data

Question 23

If a number looks very precise, people may think its reliable when it is not

Answer 23

Precise numbers

Question 24

Can be misleading or unclear

Answer 24

Percentages

Question 25

A blank is an process with a result determined by chance

Answer 25

Probability experiment (or trial)

Question 26

Each individual result that is possible for a probability experiment is an blank

Answer 26

Outcome

Question 27

The blank is the set of all possible outcomes for a given probability experiment

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Sample space

Question 28

And blank is a subset of outcomes from a sample space

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Event

Question 29

What are the four strategies you can use to list all the outcomes in a sample space

Answer 29

Pattern, tree, punnett Square, fundamental counting principle

Question 30

Blank uses the outcomes obtained by repeatedly performing an experiment to calculate the probability

Answer 30

Experimental probability (or empirical probability)

Question 31

Blank is the most precise type of probability and can only be calculated when all the possible outcomes in a sample space are known and equally likely to occur

Answer 31

Classical probability( or theoretical)

Question 32

The blank states that the greater the number of trials, the closer the experimental probability will be to the true probability

Answer 32

Law of large numbers

Question 33

Blank is an educated guess regarding the chance that an event will occur

Answer 33

Subjective probability

Question 34

A blank is a product of all positive integers less than or equal to a given positive integer, n, given by where n is a positive integer

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Factorial

Question 35

A blank is a selection of objects from a group without regards to their arrangement

Answer 35

Combination

Question 36

A blank is a selection of objects from a group where the arrangement is specific

Answer 36

Permutation