Exam 1 Review

The relationship between a statistic and a sample is the asame s the relationship between ______.

c. a parameter and a population

A recent study reports that elementary school students who were given a nutritious breakfast each morning had higher test scores than students who did not receive the breakfast. For this study, what is the independent variable?

c. whether or not a breakfast was given to the students

Determining a person's reaction time (in milliseconds) would involve measurement on a(n) _____ scale of measurement.

d. ratio

What is the value of ?X - 1 for the following scores? Scores: 2, 4, 7

c. 12

What kind of frequency distribution graph is appropriate for scores measured on an interval or ratio scale?

c. either a histogram or a polygon

In a positively skewed distribution, scores with the highest frequencies are _____.

b. on the left side of the distribution

For the following distribution of scores, 20% of the individuals have scores of X = 2... (5,5, 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,2,2,2,1,1

b. False

What is the mean for the following sample of scores?
Scores: 1, 4, 5, 10

c. 5

What is the median for the following set of scores?
Scores: 1, 2, 6, 11, 17

b. 6

What is the mode for the following sample of n = 8 scores? Scores: 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3

a. 2

For a negatively skewed distribution with a mean of M = 20, what is the value of the median?

a. greater than 20

A population of N = 6 scores has ?X = 12 and ?X2 = 54. What is the value of SS for this population?

c. 30

A population of N = 100 scores has � (mean) = 30 and ? (standard deviation) = 4. What is the population variance?

d. 16

In a population of N = 10 scores, the smallest score is X = 9 and the largest score is X = 19. Using the concept of real limits, what is the range for this population?

a. 11

To calculate the variance for a sample, SS is divided by N.

False
S2=SS/n-1