STAT170 SI (10/5)

Question 1

What is a number that describes a characteristic of a population?

Accepted Answer

Parameter

Question 2

When finding a percentile on a normal distribution, what function do we use on a graphing calculator?

Accepted Answer

invNorm(

Question 3

What is the process by which we use information from a sample to draw conclusions about a wider population?

Accepted Answer

statistical inference

Question 4

What is the distribution of values of the variable among all the individuals in the population?

Accepted Answer

population distribution

Question 5

What is the minimum value of n for the Central Limit Theorem to be valid?

Accepted Answer

30

Question 6

What is a number that can be computed from the sample values without making use of any parameter?

Accepted Answer

Statistic

Question 7

What does SRS stand for?

Accepted Answer

simple random sample

Question 8

The CLT tells us when n is large, the sampling distribution is __________.

Accepted Answer

approximately normally distributed

Question 9

What does μ represent?

Accepted Answer

population mean

Question 10

What is the distribution taken by the statistic in all possible samples of the same size from the same population?

Accepted Answer

sampling distribution

Questions 10