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Numbers May Be Involved
Biology, Geography,
or World History
or World History
100
A pooled variance is used when this can be assumed.
What are equal variances?
100
Hikers become part of the "2000 mile" club when they complete this trail that ends (or starts) on Mt. Katahdin.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
100
This epic fantasy trilogy with elves, dwarves, and wizards, released to cinemas in the 2000's, was filmed entirely in New Zealand.
What is Lord of the Rings?
100
Given \alpha=0.01 this is our relative confidence level.
What is 99% ?
100
This is the process by which organisms with favorable traits are able to produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
200
If equal variances cannot be assumed, this is the formula for the test statistic comparing two independent sample means.
What is t^**=\frac{\barX_1-\barX_2}{\sqrt{\frac{s_1^2}{n_1}+\frac{s_2^2}{n_2}}} ~ t_{v} ?
200
In Avatar: The Last Airbender, this food stand was often destroyed, much to the dismay of its owner.
What is cabbage?
200
This dystopian novel has the saying "may the odds be ever in your favor."
What is The Hunger Games?
200
These are the degrees of freedom for comparing two independent samples, with equal variances, with the respective sample sizes 22 and 34.
What are 54?
200
This U.S. state is the closest to Africa.
What is Maine?
300
If the null hypothesis for a chi-squared test is rejected, this is the conclusion drawn.
What is dependence?
300
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this is the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."
What is 42?
300
This wonky novel takes place in a candy factory, which five children were given the opportunity to tour, yet only one makes it out in the end...
What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
300
Given the following observed counts table and the critical value \chi^2=3.841 , this is what can be claimed about independence between the groups.
What is reject (dependence)?
300
This is considered to be the hottest desert in the world, but not the largest.
What is the Sahara?
400
This is the type of statistical error that occurred if the null hypothesis was wrongly not rejected.
What is a Type II Error?
400
This well-known bread baker is the only person, out of the hosts and judges, to have been in every episode of the Great British Bake Off.
Who is Paul Hollywood?
400
"Clever girl" is one of the well-known phrases from the Spielberg adaptation of this novel.
What is Jurassic Park?
400
Given s_1^2=6.93 for a sample size of n_1=10 and s_2^2=8.74 for a sample size of n_2=8 this is what can be assumed about the variances against a significance level of \alpha=0.05.
What is equal?
400
Archaeopteryx was the first dinosaur fossil found that provided a definitive link between dinosaurs and these modern day animals.
What are birds / chickens?
500
To determine when to use a one-sided or two-sided confidence interval for supporting the results of a hypothesis test, this is what should be checked.
What is the alternative hypothesis?
500
What can be assumed based on this R output?
What is equal variances?
500
This chilling novel about a cannibalistic serial killer, and the FBI agent who hunts him, was adapted into a film that won the "big five" Academy Awards.
What is Silence of the Lambs?
500
For comparing two independent samples, the following sample statistics were collected:
Assuming equal variances and the alternative hypothesis is two sided, with 99% confidence, what is the result of the hypothesis test?
What is fail to reject?
500
This was the largest contiguous empire in the world, for nearly 2 centuries, spanning from modern-day Hungary to China.
What is the Mongol Empire?