Answer the following questions as briefly but clearly as you can.
Allot around 75 minutes for this and time
yourselves carefully. Then compare your answers with mine (to be emailed before actual quiz 1 ). Dont look at my answers if you dont have your own yet. This set of questions resembles that from your quiz 1 and serves as a reviewer. 1.
Why is statistics both a science and an art?
2. What is the best situation where cluster
sampling may be used?
3. Why is simple random sampling not
recommended for a study that is extremely wide in scope (for instance, national level)? 4. For a certain study, computers at a university are grouped by building. From each building, some computers are selected. Cite one possible variable of interest to the researcher of this study. Explain.
10. The survey question What is your most
favorite primary color has values blue, yellow and red encoded as 1,2 and 3, respectively. Responses to the question are as follows: 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 2. Analyze and interpret these values. 11. The survey question How many cellphones do you own yielded the responses 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 2. Analyze and interpret these values. 12. Refer to the previous item. Between mean and median, which one would be a better measure of center? Why? 13. What is the mode hair color in INTSTA1 N01, Term 2, 2015-2016?
5. Consider the survey question, Which of the
following do you usually like doing and recommend that your friends do? ___ Read books ___ Play video games ____ Use tablet ___ Watch TV ___ Others (pls specify) _______ Cite three errors in this question. 6. What are the similarities and differences between a survey and an experiment?
7. Can the variable IQ be reduced into a lower
level of measurement? Why or why not? If so, how? 8. What is/are the level/s of measurement of the variable Birthday? Explain.
9. How is a not applicable response usually
encoded?
14. Cite one major major advantage of
coefficient of variation over standard deviation? 15. What can you say about the skewness of a set of sample values whose mean and median are both 194809472890743908769834769087409734.90 68934085903485908349058903409540? 16. Which column/s of the FDT seem/s least important? Why? 17. Refer to the FDT in the lecture powerpoint. Assuming the first class is 1 to 8, what would be the percent frequency in the fourth class? What would be the cumulative relative frequency in the third class? 18. Which graph best suits a study which aims to assess monthly unemployment rate within a year? Why?
19. What other graph does the stem-and-leaf
display resemble?
20. What is the biggest statistical mistake you
have made in your life and what did you do to make it right? 21. Should statistical literacy be a prerequisite to being Miss Universe?