Exam 11: Analysis of Quantitative Data

Describe four ways a researcher can display information about univariate statistics.

Define the following:multimodal

Define the following:cell of a table

Which of the following tells how well a set of variables explains a dependent variable?

Define the following:mode

A researcher wants to express the middle of a distribution of numbers whereby half the cases are higher and half the cases are lower than the middle value.What statistical measure should the researcher use?

Define the following:statistical significance

Define the following:possible code cleaning

Among the violent offenders in the following table,what is the ratio of males to females?  

After administering a measure for Generalized Anxiety Disorder to eight-hundred randomly sampled participants,Dr.Winkler calculated the mean GAD-scores for men and for women.Dr.Winkler found the mean GAD-score for men was higher than the mean-GAD score for women,but concluded that the difference between the two means was not statistically significant.What is the difference between the sample means tell us about the relationship between the mean GAD-scores of men and women in the population?

Define the following:measure of association

Define the following:body of a table

Which neighbourhood(s)has an income distribution resembling a skewed curve?

Which of the following cannot be learned from a scattergram?

Define the following:linear relationship

Define the following:curvilinear relationship

Define the following:frequency distribution

Which neighbourhood(s)has the greatest variation in years of education?

Define the following:Type I error

Define the following:bar chart