Module 6

Question 1

Descriptive statsitcs

Answer 1

Tools used to organize and illustrate data. Include, but are not limited to tables, graph , measures of central tendency, measures of variability

Question 2

Population

Answer 2

A group of people what share similar traits or charecteristics. It is a group of people that you are interested in studying or making inference about. Target population vs. Accessible population

Question 3

Sample

Answer 3

A subset of people from the target population and is ideally rondomly seclected from the population and is used to make inferences back to the population

Question 4

What are the scales of measurement

Answer 4

• nominal
• ordinal
• interval
• ratio

Question 5

Nominal

Answer 5

Categories with no order
Left hand vs right hand

Question 6

Ordinal

Answer 6

Categories with order
100 m race 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Question 7

Interval

Answer 7

Equal intervals between categories - no true zero

Tempr]erature - c
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Question 8

Ratio

Answer 8

Equal intervals between categories - true zero

Temp K

Question 9

Non-parametric statistics

Answer 9

Nominal and ordinal

Question 10

Parametric stastics

Answer 10

Interval and ration

Question 11

Score

Answer 11

A value associated with any variable that you have measured

Question 12

What is a collection of scores and how they arranged

Answer 12

A data set or distribution is a collection of scores - typically arranged in a series of columns and rows

Question 13

Mode

Answer 13

The score that occurs most often in your data

Question 14

What does the measure of central tendency give you

Answer 14

An idea of where the centre or majority of scores are located