Stat 101 Icebreaker

Question 1

If the mean of the sample data is 10 and if each observation is decreased by 2, then the mean of the transformed data is

Accepted Answer

8

Question 2

If Q1=50, Q2=75, Q3=300 then this indicates that the distribution is skewed to the ___________

Accepted Answer

Right

Question 3

Denoted by Ω, it is the collection of all possible outcomes of a random experiment.

Accepted Answer

sample space

Question 4

The original meaning of the word "statistics" is science of states, and in its early existence it was also called ______

Accepted Answer

political arithmetic

Question 5

What do we call the caption or label describing all of the center heads and row captions in a formal statistical table?

Accepted Answer

Stub head

Question 6

Probability theory was inspired mainly by what?

Accepted Answer

Games of chance

Question 7

It is the non-probability sampling method counterpart of stratified sampling.

Accepted Answer

Quota sampling

Question 8

A probability measure that is close to 1 means that the event has a ___________ of occurrence.

Accepted Answer

very large chance

Question 9

If the statistic is a discrete random variable, then its sampling distribution is its ___________

Accepted Answer

Probability Mass Function

Question 10

It is used to determine if there is a significant relationship between two nominal (categorical) variables.

Accepted Answer

Test for Independence

Questions 10