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1: Which of the following is an alternative hypothesis?
a. Single people report levels of happiness that are no different from thos
e reported by married people.
b. Single people spend the same amount per person on eating out as do marri
ed people.
c. Married people spend no more on household purchases than do single peopl
e.
d. An equal number of married people and single people own pets.
e. Home ownership is related to marital status such that married people are
more likely to be home owners.
Your Answer: Home ownership is related to marital status such that married peopl
e are more likely to be home owners.
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2: What type of hypothesis states that a sample statistic is either greater than
or less than the population parameter?
a. null
b. one-tailed
c. two-tailed
d. three-tailed
e. none of the above
Your Answer: two-tailed
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3: All of the following are true about the null hypothesis except _____.
a. it is always the hypothesis tested
b. accepting the null hypothesis will lead to some changes in opinions or a
ction
c. it can never be accepted based on a single statistical test
d. the null hypothesis is formulated in such a way that rejection leads to
acceptance of the desired conclusion
e. All of the above are correct
Your Answer: accepting the null hypothesis will lead to some changes in opinions
or action
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4: Which of the following illustrates the correct expression of the alternate hy
pothesis that more than 50% of the population follows a low-carb diet?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Your Answer:
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5: A _____ is also known as alpha.
a. type I error
b. type II error
c. beta error
d. standard error
e. demand error
Your Answer: type I error
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6: Statisticians recommend that the power of a test equal _____, that is, the pr
obability that one will correctly reject a false null hypothesis.

a. 5%
b. 10%
c. 50%
d. 80%
e. 95%
Your Answer: 95%
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7: The null hypothesis must be rejected when _____.
a. the p value
b. the p value
c. the p value
d. the p value cannot be determined
e the p value is unrelated to hypothesis testing
Your Answer: the p value
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8: A researcher should consider answers to all of the following questions except
_____ when selecting a particular test of significance.
a. how many samples are involved in the test,
b. are the samples related,
c. what type of data is involved
d. what is the level of significance,
e. all of the above should be addressed
Your Answer: what is the level of significance,
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9: Which statistic assumes that the variable has a symmetric bell-shaped distrib
ution and the mean is known (or assumed to be known) and the population variance
is estimated from the sample?
a. F statistic
b. t test
c. Z test
d. alpha test
e. chi-square
Your Answer: t test
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10: Which of the following involves a test of two independent samples?
a. test of differences in the percent of men and women who are or are not m
embers of Greek organizations on campus
b. test of the average incomes of subscribers of Southern Living and Better
Homes and Gardens
c. test of whether the mean salary of professors at Metro University is hig
her than the national average for university professors
d. test of whether a change occurred in the proneness for heart disease amo
ng people who switched to a diet high in fish
e. test of differences in ad recall among three experimental groups (each o
f which saw a different advertisement) and a control group
Your Answer: test of the average incomes of subscribers of Southern Living and B
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1: Which statistic summarizes the strength of association between two continuous
interval or ratio variables?
a. regression analysis

b. partial correlation coefficient

c. ANOVA
d. product moment correlation
e. gamma
Your Answer: product moment correlation
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2: _____ is a measure of nonparametric correlation.
a. Pearson product moment correlation
b. Bivariate linear regression
c. Kendall's tau
d. Partial correlation
e. all of the above
Your Answer: Bivariate linear regression
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3: It is possible for a correlation coefficient of .09 to be statistically signi
ficant when _____.
a. the variables have a positive covariance
b. the variables have a negative covariance
c. the sample is large
d. the sample is small
e. it is meaningful
Your Answer: the sample is large
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4: The _____ is the change in Y for a 1-unit change in X.
a. regression coefficient
b. slope
c. intercept
d. constant
e. error term
Your Answer: regression coefficient
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5: What is the appropriate test statistic to use to determine the significance o
f the coefficient of determination in a bivariate regression?
a. F statistic
b. Z score
c. X2
d. ANOVA
e. t
Your Answer: F statistic
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6: The _____ is not used as a measure of association for nominal, nonparametric
variables.
a. chi-square
b. phi
c. Cramer's V
d. contingency coefficient C
e. Z score
Your Answer: contingency coefficient C
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7: Proportional reduction in error statistics are used with _____.
a. interval data
b. ratio data
c. regression analysis
d. contingency tables

e. all of the above

Your Answer: contingency tables
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8: When concordant pairs exceed discordant pairs in a P-Q relationship, Kendall&
#39;s tau b reports a(n) _____ association between the variables under study.
a. inverse
b. positive
c. negative
d. weak
e. strong
Your Answer: positive
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9: What occurs when subjects have the same value on the X variable, on the Y var
iable, or on both?
a. correlation
b. resistant statistic
c. tied pairs
d. proportional reduction in error
e. positive relationship
Your Answer: tied pairs
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10: Sandra is analyzing a data set of rankings. Three judges have evaluated a se
t of wines and Sandra must assess how well the judges' rankings agree. Which
statistic should Sandra use?
a. r2
b.
c.
d.
e.
Your Answer: