Measurement
A reference sample or standard used for the quantitative comparison of properties
What is measurement
The three measures of central tendency
This is a statistical technique to determine the relationship between two or more variables
What is a correlation
What is probably true
What was Cousin Eddies comment in Christmas Vacation when Clark said, "Do you smell something"
What is "Fried pussycat"
A categorical form of measurement
What is nominal
The difference between the highest and lowest number in a data set
What is range
A correlation with r=.80 would have a coefficient of determination of this value.
What is 64%
This is the concept of increasing the chance of rejecting a false null hypothesis
What is power
How many ghosts show up in "A Christmas Carol"
What is four
Methods to report a data set in summarized form
What is descriptive
This is the estimate of the variability of the scores of a group around the mean
What is standard deviation
In a multiple regression, this would decrease the prediction value when applied to a new sample
What is shrinkage
In this error, you retain the null hypothesis in the sample even though the null hypothesis is false for the population
What is type II
The movie Miracle on 34th Street is based on this real-life department store
What is Macy's
A form of measurement with a true 0
A normal distribution with a high degree of peakedness is called this.
What is leptokurtic
This form of error does not effect average performance, but increases variability
What is random
This is a system of equations that is used as the mathematical framework for most statistical analyses in applied social research
What is the general linear model
What is Paris
Mathematical approach to deducing the probability of an occurrence of a characteristics in a population based on the measured characteristic in a sample
What is inferential statistics
In a normal distribution with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 9, 95% of the scores would lie between what two numbers?
What is 32 and 68
This form of reliability is used to assess consistency of a measure from one time to another
What is test-retest
In an ANOVA, the null hypothesis is normally true when your F value is close to this number
What is 1
In the classic Christmas movie "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" the grinch was described with these three words
What is stink, stank, stunk