5 Written Questions

1. interval level with additional property that there is also a natural zero starting point.
2. official count of the population
3. numerical information describing how much, how little, how big, how tall, how fast, etc.
4. ..., Numbers indicating a variable's values specify only the order of cases, permitting "greater than" or "less than" distinctions
5. the result of poor sample design, sloppy data collection, faulty measuring instruments, bias in questionnaires, and so on

5 Matching Questions

1. Discrete Data
2. Qualitative
3. Convenience Sampling
4. continuous data
5. Frequency distribution

1. a a variable that cannot be broken up into smaller increments
2. b a variable that can be broken up into smaller increments
3. c involving distinctions based on qualities
4. d selection of most readily available persons as participants in study
5. e a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. ..., A numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a sample
   1. Data
   2. sample
   3. statistics
   4. Statistic
2. the level of confidence in the findings of a public opinion poll. The more people interviewed, the more confident one can be of the results.
   1. sample
   2. Parameter
   3. Sampling Error
   4. NonSampling Error
3. information gathered from observations
   1. sample
   2. Parameter
   3. census
   4. Data
4. a small part of something intended as representative of the whole
   1. Parameter
   2. census
   3. sample
   4. Data
5. characterized by data that consist of names, labels, or categories only. Cannot be arranged in an ordering scheme.
   1. Ordinal level of measurement
   2. Nominal level of measurement
   3. Ratio level of measurement
   4. Interval level of measurement

5 True/False Questions

1. Stratified Sampling → the population is divided into subpopulations (strata) and random samples are taken of each stratum

   True        False

2. Voluntary response sample → this of sample size n is one in which each set of n elements in the population has an equal chance of selection

   True        False

3. Simple Random sample → a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected

   True        False

4. Random sample → this of sample size n is one in which each set of n elements in the population has an equal chance of selection

   True        False

5. Systematic Sampling → every n th member of the population is selected

   True        False