Assessment Study

Question 1

What are the two types of analytical statistics ?

Answer 1

Descriptive and Inferential

Question 2

Descriptive statistics are used to___

Answer 2

inform

Question 3

Inferential statistics are used to ___

Answer 3

Predict /Trend

Question 4

What’s the four levels of measurement?

Answer 4

Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

Question 5

What level of measurement represents continual data with unique zero point ?

Answer 5

Ratio

Question 6

What level of measurement orders data at equal distances apart ?

Answer 6

Interval

Question 7

What level of measurement places qualitative objects in some kind of order ?

Answer 7

Ordinal

Question 8

What level of measurement represents unordered categories or groups of objects ?

Answer 8

Nominal

Question 9

What type of error does an outlier create ?

Answer 9

Out of range

Question 10

What type of error is an unpredictable error ?

Answer 10

Random Error

Question 11

What type of error occurs with missing data and can distort data as well?

Answer 11

Omission Error

Question 12

What type of error tends to repeat itself and can skew results ?

Answer 12

Systematic Error

Question 13

What is the main process of quality control?

Answer 13

Reduce/ minimize errors

Question 14

What type of study is where all variable measurements are under the researchers control?

Answer 14

Experimental Study

Question 15

What type of study is used when the test subject is impractical or impossible to control?

Answer 15

Observational Study

Question 16

What type of study is it when participants are not told if they are in the treatment group or experiment group?

Answer 16

Blind Study

Question 17

What is applied by the researcher to each test subject ?

Answer 17

Treatment

Question 18

What type of study is where neither the treatment allocator nor the participants known who is in the treatment group or experiment group ?

Answer 18

Double Blind Study

Question 19

What type of bias is when the questions favor an outcome or the interviewer as questions that favor an outcome ?

Answer 19

Information Bias

Question 20

What type of analysis represents the average outcome (payoff) when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen?

Answer 20

Expected Monetary Value Analysis

Question 21

How can you treat observation points that are very distant from the rest of the data set in an analysis ?

Answer 21

May or may not be included in analysis but causes skewness

Question 22

What bias occurs from not selecting a random sample?

Answer 22

Measurement Bias

Question 23

What bias occurs when respondents believe it will be beneficial if selected ?

Answer 23

Conscious Bias

Question 24

What measures the difference between the third and first quartile ?

Answer 24

Inter-quartile range ordered from lowest to highest

Question 25

What is used to study the composition of a data set and examine the distribution ?

Answer 25

Box Plot

Question 26

What represents a simple regression using time as the independent variable ?

Answer 26

Time Series

Question 27

What represents a general upwards or downwards slow over a period of time ?

Answer 27

Trend

Question 28

What is it called when there’s unforeseen circumstances causing random deviations ?

Answer 28

Irregularity

Question 29

What is it called when there’s repetition in up and down patters ?

Answer 29

Cyclicality

Question 30

What is it called when there’s a regular pattern within a single year ?

Answer 30

Seasonality

Question 31

What is it called when the probability of a variable falls within a certain range?

Answer 31

Cumulative Distribution

Question 32

What is it called when there’s a list of all the different probabilities of each outcome that can occur ?

Answer 32

Probability Distribution

Question 33

What is it called when the measures of central tendency are approximately equal?

Answer 33

Normal Distribution

Question 34

What is used to compare the mean of three or more groups ?

Answer 34

ANOVA

Question 35

What test statistic does ANOVA use ?

Answer 35

F-value (must be higher than critical value to reject the null)

Question 36

What test statistic does the T-test use ?

Answer 36

T-value (must be higher than the critical value to reject the null)

Question 37

A correlation is weak if the coefficient is closer to ___

Answer 37

Zero

Question 38

A correlation is strong if the coefficient is closer to ___

Answer 38

1 or -1

Question 39

What illustrated performance measurements over a period of time ?

Answer 39

Run Chart

Question 40

What illustrates limits or constraints a process should not exceed?

Answer 40

Control charts

Question 41

What item assists in brainstorming issues that are causing a problem ?

Answer 41

Cause and Effect Diagram (Fishbone diagram)

Question 42

What is a visual tool to understand a process ?

Answer 42

Flowchart

Question 43

What is an easy tool to collect data to create other charts ?

Answer 43

Check Sheet

Question 44

What represents a graphical display of a data set with one bar for each category ?

Answer 44

Histogram and Pareto Chart

Question 45

What represents a graphical display of a data set centered ?

Answer 45

Histogram

Question 46

What represents a graphical display of a data set in highest to lowest order ?

Answer 46

Pareto

Question 47

What is used for potential relationships and correlation between variables ?

Answer 47

Scatter Diagram

Question 48

Can the seven basic tools be used independently ?

Answer 48

Yes

Question 49

What percent of quality problems does Ishikawa claim the seven tools can solve ?

Answer 49

90-95%

Question 50

What diagram demonstrates all of the elements that can influence a process before it starts ?

Answer 50

SIPOC

Question 51

What is a manufacturing approach to improving processes?

Answer 51

Six Sigma

Question 52

In manufacturing, statistics are used for ___

Answer 52

Quality Control

Question 53

In the PDSA what step is a response to analytical results ?

Answer 53

Act

Question 54

What shows whether a result meets a requirement or not ?

Answer 54

Attribute

Question 55

What shows you how well a result meets a requirement ?

Answer 55

Variable

Question 56

What variations are accepted as the normal part of the process ?

Answer 56

Common Cause Variations

Question 57

What variations are from an abnormality causing large discrepancy in results ?

Answer 57

Special Cause Variations

Question 58

What is the model of designing, analyzing, and scoring tests ?

Answer 58

Item Response Theory

Question 59

How does the government differ than the private sector in a cost benefit analysis ?

Answer 59

Government isn’t always about money

Question 60

What is it called to compare one person’s performance to other people’s performances ?

Answer 60

Norm Reference

Question 61

What is it called to compare a person’s performance to a standard score ?

Answer 61

Criterion Referenced

Question 62

What management strategy uses results as the central base measurement of performance ?

Answer 62

Results Based Management

Question 63

What is it called when counting ALL of the existing cases of a disease ?

Answer 63

Prevalence

Question 64

What is it called when counting only NEW cases of a disease ?

Answer 64

Incidence

Question 65

What is used to analyze if funding is worth the outcome for a project ?

Answer 65

Cost Benefit Analysis

Question 66

What represents a performance measure for one specific goal ?

Answer 66

KPI

Question 67

What is it called when multiple KPIs are displayed in a picture ?

Answer 67

KPI Dashboard