Exam 15: Frequency Distribution,cross-Tabulation,and Hypothesis Testing

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A measure of central tendency given as the value above which half of the values fall and below which half of the values fall is the ________.

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Measures of location or central tendency include the mean,median,and mode.

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________ is a test statistic that measures the association between two ordinal-level variables.It does not make an adjustment for ties.

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The two-tailed test is more powerful than the one-tailed test.

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To balance the two types of errors,alpha (α),also known as ________,is often set at .01 or .05.

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The median is an appropriate measure of central tendency for ________ data.

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When variables are perfectly associated,the phi coefficient assumes the value of 1.

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If a variable is measured on a nominal scale,the median should be used.

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The ________ is used as a measure of the strength of association in the special case of a table with two rows and two columns (a 2 × 2 table).

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The F static is computed as the ratio of two sample variances.

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In a symmetric distribution,the values on either side of the center of the distribution are the same,and the mean,mode,and median are equal.

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________ is an average of the two asymmetric lambda values.It does not make an assumption about which variable is dependent.

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The degrees of freedom for the t statistic to test hypotheses about one mean are ________.

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The ________ is a univariate hypothesis test using the t distribution,which is used when the standard deviation is unknown and the sample size is small.

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The ________ is a symmetric bell-shaped distribution that is useful for small sample (n < 30)testing.

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The binomial test is a test of randomness for a dichotomous variable.

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The ________ is a frequency distribution that depends upon two sets of degrees of freedom,the degrees of freedom in the numerator and the degrees of freedom in the denominator.

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Which of the following tests is not a non-parametric one-sample test?

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The runs test tests the goodness of fit of the observed number of observations in each category to the number expected under specified binomial distribution.

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The introduction of a third variable in cross-tabulation can result in which of the following possibilities?

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