222 Chp 17

What does an r represent in statistics?

What type of statistics makes generalizations about a population based on a sample?

What measure of dispersion represents the average distance of each score from the mean?

What p value is accepted in oral health research?

In a negatively skewed distribution, the extreme scores and tail are located where?

What type of graph is depicted?

What term means the results of the study can be inferred to the general population?

Eye color is an example of what type of data?

What statistical symbol represents the probability that research results are due to chance?

What scale of measurement ranks data based on attributes?

What does H₀ represent?

Parametric and nonparametric statistics are types of _____.

Applying statistics in biologcially relevant areas is known as ___

What is the purpose for using measures of dispersion?

What does it mean when a Type I error is committed?

A type I error is also known as a β error

Which of the following should NOT be looked at in a research report for evidenced-based practice purposes?

What measure of dispersion is determined by subtracting the lowest score from the highest score?

What type of statistics is used to summarize, organize and describe quantitative data?

What confidence interval is acceptable in oral health research?

What statistical test is used to compare two mean scores?

What measures of central tendency represents the middle score of a set of data?

What percent of the data falls within 1 standard deviation of the mean for the empirical rule for a normal distribution?