Exam 14: Data Analysis I-- Data Preparation and Presentation

You ask people two open-ended questions in a survey: what is your religious affiliation, and list the names of the magazines that you subscribe to. Develop a coding scheme for each of these variables and justify it as a good coding scheme.

All of the following terms refer to outcomes that can occur when conducting table elaboration EXCEPT:

The skewness of a frequency distribution could not be determined if the distribution:

According to the text, bar graphs are especially useful for representing data that:

In many statistical analysis programs, a "compute" procedure is used to:

In a grouped frequency distribution, the size of the grouped intervals is called:

In a codebook, the term "value label" refers to:

Table elaboration is most clearly a part of:

In table elaboration, a "test variable" could be best described as:

A percentage difference derived from a percentage table:

When data are first collected, they are in the form of a:

The term bivariate statistics is used to describe statistics that:

The purpose of the "data cleaning" step in data analysis is to:

The term "simple frequency distribution" refers to:

If a contingency table is a third-order partial table, then the number of variables controlled is:

The two preferred methods for graphing continuous data are:

According to the conventions used in this text, contingency tables:

Fifty minor offenders, arrested for shoplifting, were used as subjects in a research project. One half were placed on probation and the other half were given a special shoplifter group counseling program. The results were as follows for those on probation: 20 re arrested, 5 no offenses. For the group counseling subjects, 10 were re arrested and 15 had no offenses. Prepare a contingency table for this data, followed by a percentage table. Finally, compute a percentage difference between the two conditions.What does the percentage difference say about the relationship between the two variables

In a bar graph, the vertical axis represents:

__________ refers to deriving some meaning from the observation that have been made during a research project.