Is the following data set likely to be left skewing or right skewing?
Right Skewed
Which of the following is the symbol for Population standard deviation A. μ B.
A. μ \quad B.\barx \quad C. σ \quad D. Sx
C. σ
Amy, a reporter, wants to survey workers about where they eat lunch during a typical work week. She writes a column asking workers to call a special phone number and identify where they eat lunch during a typical work week. What type of bias can come from this type of sampling method?
What is self-selected/nonresponse. The workers can choose whether or not to respond.
The range and sample standard deviation of this data set 47, 18, 65, 28, 43, 18
What is... Range - 47, Sx - 18.6 ?
The probability of selecting a data point from your set to be under the normal curve is always ____ .
100%
Baltimore city sent out a survey to a sample of residents asking what their greatest neighborhood needs are. The survey was sent to all of the apartments in the Inner Harbor area. What type of bias is this most likely to result in?
Undercoverage
The mean, median, and mode of this data set. 6, 22, 4, 15, 10, 8, 8, 7, 14, 20
What is... Mean - 11.4 Median - 9 Mode - 8 ?
The median number of pets owned is:
1
Mr. Dingle wanted to know if the students in his class wanted to play jeopardy. He asked the first 5 students to arrive in each of his classes one day. What type of Sample is this most likely to be?
Convenience
The range and population standard deviation of this data set. 29.4, 22.9, 15.7, 26.9, 24.0, 27.5, 11.4
What is... Range - 18, σ - 6.1 ?
The Z score of the mean is always ____.
Zero
A Nike representative wanted to check for defects in Nike sneakers sold in Baltimore area stores. She assumed the Nikes would be randomly distributed to different stores. She chose a 3 different stores and checked all of the Nikes in those stores. This is an example of what type of sampling?
Cluster random sampling
Scores on the ACT test for the 2004 high school graduating class had a mean of 20.9 and a standard deviation of 4.8. In all, 1,171,460 students in this class took the test, and 1,052,490 of them had scores of 27 or lower if the distribution of scores were normal, what percent of scores would be 27 or lower? What percent of actual scores were 27 or lower? Does the normal distribution describe the actual data well?
Table Percentage: 90% Actual Percentage: 90% Yes
The mean, median of this data. 0.12, 0.54, 0.36, 0.17, 0.36, 0.94, 0.88
IS IT SYMMETRICAL, LEFT SKEWING, OR RIGHT SKEWING
What is.... Mean - about 0.48 Median - 0.36
SKEW: RIGHT
It is a mathematical table that allows us to know the percentage of values below (to the left) a z-score in a standard normal distribution (SND).
Z score table
Mrs. Claus wanted to find out what activities seniors were most interested in doing on their NYC trip. Rather than ask all seniors she assigned a number to each student and used a random number generator to select students for her sample. This is an example of what type of random sample?
SRS (Simple Random Sample)