HSCI 190 Final Exam Review

The probability of event A or event B, or both is called what?

The variable being measured is which variable?

You are wanting to determine whether age predicts high blood pressure. What type of analysis do you use?

Analyzing data to make general conclusions is referred to as

What is NOT used to identify an outlier?

Which measure of central tendency is most sensitive to outliers?

Correlation refers to

What is NOT a key element of correlation

For a normal distribution the area under the curve equals what?

The strength of evidence required to reject the null hypothesis, usually 0.05 represents what?

Marital status is an example of what kind of variable?

A likert scale (e.g. 1= strongly disagree, 6 = strongly agree) is an example of what type of data?

Eye colour would be an example of what type of data?

A researcher wants to compare glucose (mmol/L) before and after a meal in individuals with type I diabetes. The group is

A researcher is interested if glucose (mmol/L) differs between type I and type II diabetics. What type of group is this?

What framework do we use for understanding statistics?

What type of correlation analysis requires at least one ordinal variable, does not require normality

When someone purposefully selects the number or descriptive that best supports their argument is called...

More data is always better.

A key feature of an F distribution is

No differences between sample and population represents what type of hypothesis?

What is required for a z test?

We collect the following to make inferences about a population.

Which of the following is NOT used to describe the spread of data?

What is an underlying assumption for the use of a parametric test?

What do post-hoc analyses tell you?​

What distribution does an ANOVA use?​

The number of values that are free to vary refers to what?

Statistics is a branch of mathematics that studies what?

Which axis depicts the dependent variable?

Reject the null hypothesis but it is true represents what kind of error?

According to the central limit theorem, as the sample size increases, all sampling distributions will approximate what?

Exploring opinions on government funded health insurance by interviewing people at Halifax Airport. What is the bias?

As you have more samples, the variability of the same mean

What test could you do if you broke the one-way ANOVA assumption of normality or scale data?

Of individuals who have seen a doctor for back pain, what proportion sit versus are active at work. Which test?

What test is used for comparing multiple groups rather than a t test?

Temperature is an example of which type of data?