Stats Chapter 1 Review

Identify the target population

What level of measurement is the speed of your computer (very slow.....very fast).

What level of measurement is your favorite ice cream?

Identify the population.

Identify the response variable

Identify the population

Is number of siblings continuous or discrete?

What level of measurement is gender?

Identify the type of sampling method.

Identify the type of sampling method.

Identify the predictor variable

What level of measurement is Math SAT?

Is height continuous or discrete?

Which is not a variable?

What level of measurement is your credit card balance?

What level of measurement is the number of contacts on your cellphone?

What level of measurement is class rank?

What level of measurement is siblings?

Decide which method of data collection you would use to collect data for the study

What is an observation for Christopher?

Is the variable gender qualitative or quantitative?

What level of measurement is height?

Identify the potential population

Decide which method of data collection you would use to collect data for the study

Decide which method of data collection you would use to collect data for the study

Identify the type of sampling method used.

What is the control?

Which method is most likely to produce a random sample of the members of your class?

What is the treatment?

What factor of a good questionnaire is violated?

State the factor of a good questionnaire that is violated.

Identify the type of sampling method used.

A college president wants to find out which courses students prefer. What would be best sample?