What is a collection of facts or information from which conclusions may be drawn?
Data
100
What is a fact or piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data?
Statistic
100
What is the the level in which numbers are used to classify the data,however, words and letters can be used as well?
Nominal
100
A sample is a subset of a population
True
100
What are the subjects in a treatment and control group called?
Experimental Units
200
What is a set of observations usually associated with physical measurement that can take on any mathematical value within specified parameters
Continuous Data
200
What is a measurable characteristic of a population, such as a mean or a standard deviation?
Parameter
200
What is the level of measurement that depicts some ordered relationship between the number of items?
Ordinal
200
It is impossible for the Census Bureau to obtain all the census data about the population of the United States
True
200
What does a researcher not do in an observational study?
Influence the responses
300
What is data that can be numerical or categorical?
Discrete Data
300
What is a subset containing the characteristics of a larger population?
Sample
300
What is the level of measurement that not only classifies and orders the measurements, but it also specifies that the distances between each interval on the scale are equivalent along the scale from low interval to high interval?
Interval
300
Sample Size is the number of subjects in a study.
True
300
A simulation is the use of a ______ or physical model to reproduce the conditions of a situation or process.
Mathematical
400
What is data that can be arranged into categories that are not numerical?
Qualitative Data
400
What is the entire pool from which a statistical sample is drawn?
Population
400
What is the level of measurement in which the measurements can have a value of zero, although the properties are similar to that of the interval level of measurement?
Ratio
400
A census is a count or measure of part of a population
False
400
A survey is an investigation of one or more ______ of a population.
Characteristics
500
What is any kind of data that can be measured numerically?
Quantitative Data
500
What is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population?
Census
500
What is a classification that describes the nature of information within the numbers assigned to variables?
Level of Measurement
500
In performing an experiment, a treatment is applied to part of a population.
False
500
What is a factor that can affect experimental results?