Deck 4: Descriptive, Correlational, and Inferential Statistics

Question 1

Calculating for a relationship between college admission scores and freshman GPA requires what type of statistics?

A) Descriptive statistics
B) Correlational statistics
C) Inferential statistics

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Calculating the average of scores on a standardized test for 500 participants requires what type of statistics?

A) Descriptive statistics
B) Correlational statistics
C) Inferential statistics

Answer 2

A

Question 3

When the researcher is generalizing the results form a sample to a population, what type of statistics needs to be conducted?

A) Descriptive statistics
B) Correlational statistics
C) Inferential statistics

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What measures the degree to which the results from the sample is inaccurate?

A) Sample error
B) Margin of error
C) Sampling bias
D) Standard error

Question 5

In the case that an Algebra teacher chooses to pretest all students at the beginning of a course, all members of the population are being studied. This is known as

A) A population study
B) Census
C) A sample study
D) A sample study that creates margin of error