Practice TEST MQF1033

Practice Test

Part 1 objective

1. The science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions is referred to as STATISTICS

2. Method of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an enlightening way are called DESCRITICE STATISTICS

3. The methods used to estimate a value of a population on the basis of a sample are called INFERENTIAL STATISTICS@ STATISTICS INFERENCE

4. a portion, or a part of the group of interest is referred to as a SAMPLE

5. the entire set of individuals or objects of interest or the measurements obtained from all individuals or objects of interest is known as a POPULATION

6. With the NOMINAL level of measurement, the data are sorted into categories with no particular order to the categories.

7. The RATIO level of measurement has a significant zero point.

8. The ORDINAL level of measurement presumes that one classification is ranked higher than another

9. The INTERVAL level of measurement has the characteristics that the distance between values is a constant size.

10. Is the number of bedrooms in a house a discrete or continuous variable? DISCRETE VARIABLES

11. The jersey numbers on baseball uniforms in an example of the NOMINAL level of measurement.

12. What level of measurement is used when students are classified by eye color? NOMINAL

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