Exam 14: Analyzing Numerical Data

Temperature is an example of ______ measure due to the equal distance between each level.

______ refers to an asymmetrical distribution.

The simplest way to measure an object is simply to categorize it.

______ involves splitting the adopted probability required for significance across the entire range of comparisons to be made.

The most frequently occurring category is the ______.

______ is a measure with an absolute and meaningful zero point and rank-ordered categories of values with meaningful intervals of difference between them.

Summarize how to handle error rates when undertaking multiple analyses and discuss the common techniques.

Alice is in a reading group with other fourth graders. Fifty percent of the people in the reading group read at a third grade level and fifty percent are reading at a fifth grade level. What level is the median?

Compare and contrast descriptive and inferential statistics and discuss how to decide which is approach to use.

Summarize the examination of differences between categories and discuss the statistical techniques used to analyze them.

Extreme scores are also known as outliers.

______ measurement levels are for when the numbers ascribed to our classification possess order.

A ______ distribution is any distribution in which the two sides are essentially mirror images.

A ______ is something that does not vary.

______ a measure with no true zero point that has rank-ordered ordered attributes with a meaningful distance between them.

Inches are an example of ______ because there is a meaningful zero point and intervals and ratio differences are consistent.