A large group of observations (people, objects etc.) about which a researcher wants to draw conclusions
The number of people in a country
The number of people that comprise a demographic
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What does descriptive statistics do?
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Make leaps and conclusions about a population from sample data
Describe the data in a meaningful way
Explain formulae, the theory behind the statistics
Compress and condense raw data in the world into a workable size
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What is σ²M
Answer
Standard variance of the population
Standard error of the mean
Standard deviation
Variance of sample
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What are inferential statistics
Answer
A tool to predict the sample based on population data
A tool to draw inferences about a population from sample data
A way to compress and consolidate sample data
A way to estimate and make decisions about sample statistics
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What are the two inferential procedures
Answer
Hypothesis testing and extrapolating
Estimation and interpolating
Estimation and hypothesis testing
Hypothesis testing and determining limitations
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What is a confidence interval?
Answer
How likely a particular value or set of values is in the given data
An estimation of the confidence results are significant
An estimation of the area that encompasses a particular value
A tool to define a prediction, i.e. is it true or not
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What is hypothesis testing?
Answer
How likely a particular value or set of values is in the given data
A way to test if the hypothesis can be applied to the entire population
A way to test if the hypothesis is valid
A tool to define a prediction regarding a statement about the population parameter, i.e. is it true or not
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What is the sampling distribution?
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A hypothetical distribution of values of a particular population parameter made by repeatedly sampling "n" times from a sample and calculating the value of the statistic for each sample
A hypothetical distribution of values of a particular sample statistic made by repeatedly sampling "n" times from a population and calculating the value of the population parameter for each sample
A hypothetical distribution of values of a particular sample statistic made by repeatedly sampling "n" times from a population and calculating the value of the statistic for each sample
Question 9
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The standard error of the mean only refers to the [blank_start]experiment[blank_end] [blank_start]that you are doing now[blank_end], i.e. the behaviour of the averages collected [blank_start]in the experiment[blank_end], while the variance is the noise in the [blank_start]population[blank_end].
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experiment
population
sample
that you are doing now
parameter
statistic
that you did previously
in the experiment
for the population
in a previous experiment
populations
experiments
samples
sampling distributions
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M is the unbiased estimate of μ
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True
False
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[blank_start]Variability[blank_end] tells you how much you can trust your [blank_start]experiment[blank_end]
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Variability
experiment
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As 'n' gets larger, you get a better estimate of the [blank_start]true population mean[blank_end].
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true population mean
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Decreasing standard deviation makes the σ²M more spread out, and pulls data away from the population mean.