Exam Prep for:: Using and Interpreting Statistics

By Mzn Lnx

Statistics is a branch of mathematics that studies variability, as well as the random process that generates it, following laws of probability. This book provides over 2,000 Exam Prep questions and answers to accompany the text Using and Interpreting Statistics Items include highly probable exam items: Normal score, Sampling distribution, Cumulant, Median test, hypergeometric, Reduced cost, Pictogram, Law of averages, Hypergeometric distribution, Random sampling, sample size, Covariance, and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jun 5, 2019

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Research methods

Summary statistics

Probability and statistics

Regression analysis

Statistical inference

Multivariate statistics

Index: Answers

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Research methods

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:: Statistical software ::

Exam Probability: High

1. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Minitab

b. Statistics Online Computational Resource

c. WINdows KwikStat

d. GLIM

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical data sets ::

Exam Probability: Medium

2. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Data set

b. Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database

c. National Asian American Survey

d. Energy statistics

Guidance: level 1

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:: Regression analysis ::

Exam Probability: Medium

3. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Unit-weighted regression

b. Multicollinearity

c. Hat matrix

d. Backfitting algorithm

Guidance: level 1

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:: Theory of probability distributions ::

Exam Probability: Low

4. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Probabilistic metric space

b. Mean difference

c. Kurtosis

d. Scale parameter

Guidance: level 1

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:: Elementary arithmetic ::

Exam Probability: Low

5. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Fifth power

b. Least common multiple

c. Arithmetic for Parents

d. Percentage

Guidance: level 1

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:: Means ::

Exam Probability: Low

6. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Power mean

b. Quasi-arithmetic mean

c. Stolarsky mean

d. Centroid

Guidance: level 1

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:: Sampling techniques ::

Exam Probability: Medium

7. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Snowball sampling

b. Simple random sample

c. Survey sampling

d. Gradsect

Guidance: level 1

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:: Quantitative research ::

Exam Probability: Low

8. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Quantitative research

b. MarketTools

c. InContext Solutions

Guidance: level 1

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:: Inductive reasoning ::

Exam Probability: Medium

9. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Inverse resolution

b. Inductive reasoning aptitude

c. Reasoning system

d. Rule induction

Guidance: level 1

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:: Research ::

Exam Probability: Medium

10. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Research proposal

b. Eco-costs value ratio

c. Education Index

d. Clinical data management

Guidance: level 1

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:: Non-parametric statistics ::

Exam Probability: Low

11. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Ranklet

b. runs test

c. Van der Waerden test

d. Sign test

Guidance: level 1

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:: Research methods ::

Exam Probability: High

12. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Elevated plus maze

b. Dago dazzler

c. Data storage tag

d. Research

Guidance: level 1

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:: Non-parametric statistics ::

Exam Probability: Medium

13. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Kruskal-Wallis test

b. Binomial test

c. Concordant pair

d. Fisher's exact

Guidance: level 1

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:: Data analysis ::

Exam Probability: Medium

14. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Oversampling and undersampling in data analysis

b. Data analysis

c. Segmented regression

d. Grouped data

Guidance: level 1

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:: Questionnaire construction ::

Exam Probability: Low

15. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Guttman scale

b. Thurstone scale

c. Likert scale

d. Questionnaire

Guidance: level 1

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:: Quality control tools ::

Exam Probability: Low

16. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Scatter diagram

b. P-chart

c. Seven Basic Tools of Quality

d. SIPOC

Guidance: level 1

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:: Fitting probability distributions ::

Exam Probability: High

17. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Maximum spacing estimation

b. Method of maximum likelihood

c. Maximum likelihood

d. Distribution fitting

Guidance: level 1

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:: Decision theory ::

Exam Probability: Medium

18. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Intertemporal choice

b. Rational planning model

c. Decision table

d. Lock-in

Guidance: level 1

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:: Sampling (statistics) ::

Exam Probability: Low

19. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Sample size

b. Acceptance sampling

c. Total survey error

d. Data sample

Guidance: level 1

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:: Randomness ::

Exam Probability: High

20. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Nothing up my sleeve number

b. Randomness tests

c. Randomness

d. Random number book

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical tests ::

Exam Probability: Medium

21. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Wald test

b. Two-tailed test

c. Separation test

d. one-tailed

Guidance: level 1

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:: Probability theory ::

Exam Probability: Low

22. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Stochastic geometry

b. Random variable

c. Contiguity

d. Independence

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical terminology ::

Exam Probability: Medium

23. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Raw score

b. probability function

c. Ceiling effect

d. Percentage point

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical charts and diagrams ::

Exam Probability: High

24. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Bar chart

b. Pie chart

c. Lorenz curve

d. Chernoff face

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical deviation and dispersion ::

Exam Probability: Medium

25. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Berkson error model

b. Symmetric mean absolute percentage error

c. Standard error

d. Mean square weighted deviation

Guidance: level 1

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:: Summary statistics ::

Exam Probability: Low

26. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Nonparametric skew

b. Mean percentage error

c. Frequency distribution

d. Seven-number summary

Guidance: level 1

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:: Systems engineering ::

Exam Probability: Low

27. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Procurement

b. Systems architect

c. PREview

d. Planning

Guidance: level 1

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:: Evaluation methods ::

Exam Probability: Medium

28. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Terahertz nondestructive evaluation

b. Case series

c. Contingent valuation

d. quasi-experimental design

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical terminology ::

Exam Probability: High

29. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Likelihood

b. Degrees of freedom

c. Ogive

d. Ridge regression

Guidance: level 1

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:: Meta-analysis ::

Exam Probability: High

30. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Study heterogeneity

b. Signed differential mapping

c. Meta-regression

d. Homogeneity

Guidance: level 1

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:: Epidemiology ::

Exam Probability: Low

31. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Biological plausibility

b. National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit

c. Neuroepidemiology

d. Odds ratio

Guidance: level 1

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:: Probability theory ::

Exam Probability: Low

32. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Collectively exhaustive events

b. Conditioning

c. Independence

d. Matrix analytic method

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical data types ::

Exam Probability: Low

33. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Binary data

b. Binary variable

c. Cross-sectional

d. Statistical shape analysis

Guidance: level 1

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:: Change detection ::

Exam Probability: Medium

34. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Change detection

b. False alarm

c. Control chart

d. Shewhart chart

Guidance: level 1

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:: Social psychology ::

Exam Probability: Medium

35. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Authority

b. European Association of Social Psychology

c. Interpersonal perception

d. Boomerang effect

Guidance: level 1

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:: Research methods ::

Exam Probability: Low

36. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Vivisection

b. Force matching

c. Qualtrics

d. Grounded theory

Guidance: level 1

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:: Nursing research ::

Exam Probability: Medium

37. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Longitudinal studies

b. Secondary research

c. Nursing research

d. Nursing process

Guidance: level 1

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:: Causality ::

Exam Probability: High

38. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Secondary causation

b. ceteris paribus

c. Causal closure

d. Disposition

Guidance: level 1

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:: Theory of computation ::

Exam Probability: Medium

39. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Computation history

b. Nomogram

c. Rounding

d. Shadow square

Guidance: level 1

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:: Least squares ::

Exam Probability: Medium

40. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Least squares support vector machine

b. Mean square

c. Generalized least squares

d. Least squares

Guidance: level 1

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:: Hypothesis testing ::

Exam Probability: High

41. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. P-rep

b. Test statistic

c. Statistical significance

d. Uniformly most powerful test

Guidance: level 1

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:: Sampling techniques ::

Exam Probability: High

42. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Snowball sampling

b. Distance sampling

c. Line-intercept sampling

d. Convenience sampling

Guidance: level 1

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:: Operations research ::

Exam Probability: Low

43. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. DYNAMO

b. Peace gaming

c. Berth allocation problem

d. Simulation

Guidance: level 1

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:: Design of experiments ::

Exam Probability: Low

44. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Null result

b. Institutional review board

c. Crossover study

d. Paradigm

Guidance: level 1

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:: Statistical charts and diagrams ::

Exam Probability: Medium

45. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Probability plot

b. Multi-vari chart

c. Sequence logo

d. William Playfair

Guidance: level 1

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:: Regression analysis ::

Exam Probability: High

46. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Variable rules analysis

b. Moderation

c. Proper linear model

d. Polynomial regression

Guidance: level 1

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:: Scientific method ::

Exam Probability: Medium

47. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Self-experimentation

b. study design

c. Multiple discovery

d. Case study

Guidance: level 1

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:: Evaluation methods ::

Exam Probability: Medium

48. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Expertise finding

b. Rubric

c. Evaluation

d. quasi-experimental design

Guidance: level 1

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:: Structure ::

Exam Probability: Medium

49. Answer choices:

(click for correct answer)

a. Structure

b. Homoarchy

c. Shape

d. Triarchy

Guidance: level 1

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:: Analysis of variance ::

Exam Probability: Low

50.