Quiz-1

Quest 1
 Which of the following plots is most useful for
detecting outlying scores?
A. Stem and leaf plot.
B. Histogram.
C. Scattergram.
D. Box and whisker plot.
Quest 2
Which one of these statistics is unaffected by outliers?
A. Mean
B. Interquartile range
C. Standard deviation
D. Range
Quest 3
Which of the following would indicate that a dataset is
not bell-shaped?
A. The range is equal to 5 standard deviations.
B. The range is larger than the interquartile range.
C. The mean is much smaller than the median.
D. There are no outliers.
Quest 4
A scatter plot of number of teachers and number of people with
college degrees for cities in Indonesia reveals a positive association.
The most likely explanation for this positive association is:
A. Teachers encourage people to get college degrees, so an increase
in the number of teachers is causing an increase in the number
of people with college degrees.
B. Larger cities tend to have both more teachers and more people
with college degrees, so the association is explained by a third
variable, the size of the city.
C. Teaching is a common profession for people with college
degrees, so an increase in the number of people with college
degrees causes an increase in the number of teachers.
D. Cities with higher incomes tend to have more teachers and
more people going to college, so income is a confounding
variable, making causation between number of teachers and
number of people with college degrees difficult to prove.
Quest 5
According to the empirical rule, approximately what
percentage of normally distributed data lies within one
standard deviation of the mean?
A. 59%
B. 68%
C. 95%
D. 99.7%
Quest 6
We have seen that outliers can produce problematic
results. Rank the following measures in order from “least
affected by outliers” to “most affected by outliers”.
A. a) mean, median, range
B. b) median, mean, range
C. c) range, median, mean
D. d) median, range, mean
Quest 7
Why do we use inferential statistics?
A. Inferential statistics are used to help us to show the
difference between the sample and the whole
population.
B. Inferential statistics are used to help us to generalise
from the sample to the whole population.
C. Inferential statistics are used to help us to compare the
sample to the whole population.
D. All of the above apply to the use of inferential statistics.
Quest 8
Which of the following represents a population
and a sample from that population?
A. Residents of Jakarta, and registered voters in
Jakarta.
B. Teachers in a high school and members of
the parent teacher group A and B.
C. Fans at a concert who purchase t-shirts, and
fans at a concert who purchase soda.
D. Freshmen at University of Indonesia and
basketball players at University of
Indonesia.
Quest 9
A company wants to estimate the mean
price of oil over the past 10 years. What
kind of data does the company need?
A. Time series data.
B. Inferential statistics.
C. Cross-sectional data.
D. Descriptive statistics.
Quest 10
Which of the following is a quantitative
variable?
A. Gender.
B. Temperature.
C. Marital status.
D. Religious faith.
Quest 11
An undergraduate student's status
(freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior)
is an example of which scale of
measurement?
A. Ratio scale.
B. Ordinal scale.
C. Interval scale.
D. Nominal scale.
Quest 12
In order to summarize qualitative data, a
useful tool is a _________.
A. Histogram.
B. Frequency distribution.
C. Stem-and-leaf diagram.
D. All of the above.
Quest 13
For which of the following data sets will a
pie chart be most useful?
A. Heights of high school freshmen.
B. Ambient temperatures in the U.S. Capitol
Building.
C. Percentage of net sales by product for
Lenovo in 2016.
D. Growth rates of firms in a particular
industry.
Quest 14
The accompanying chart shows
the numbers of books written
by each author in a collection of
cookbooks. What type of chart
is this?

A. Quantitative, ordinal.
B. Quantitative, ratio.
C. Qualitative, nominal.
D. Qualitative, ordinal.
Quest 15
When constructing a frequency distribution
for quantitative data, it is important to
remember that ____________.
A. Classes are mutually exclusive.
B. Classes are collectively exhaustive
C. The total number of classes usually
ranges from 5 to 20.
D. All of the above.
Quest 16
Is it possible for a data set to have no mode?
A. Yes, if two observations occur twice.
B. No, unless there is an odd number of
observations.
C. No, if the data set is nonempty, there is
always a mode.
D. Yes, if there are no observations that
occur more than once.
Quest 17
The owner of a company has recently
decided to raise the salary of one employee,
who was already making the highest salary,
by 20%. Which of the following is (are)
expected to be affected by this raise?
A. mean only.
B. median only.
C. mean and median only.
D. mean, median and mode.
Quest 18
Which of the following statements is most
accurate when defining percentiles?
A. The pth percentile divides a data set into equal
parts.
B. Approximately p% of the observations are
greater than the pth percentile.
C. Approximately (100-p)% of the observations are
less than the pth percentile.
D. Approximately (100-p)% of the observations are
greater than the pth percentile.
Quest 19
What is/are characteristic(s) of the geometric
mean?
A. It is always greater than the arithmetic
mean.
B. is the mathematical equivalent to the
median.
C. It is always less than or equal to the
arithmetic mean.
D. B and C.
Quest 20
Which of the following statements about
variance is most accurate? Variance:
A. is the square root of the standard deviation.
B. can be a positive number or a negative
number.
C. is denominated in the same units as the
original data.
D. is the average of the squared deviations
from the mean.
Quest 21
Which of the following is most influenced
by outliers?
A. Mode.
B. Median.
C. 75th Percentile.
D. Arithmetic mean.
Quest 22
The Boom company has recently decided to
raise the salaries of all employees by 10
percent. Which of the following is (are)
expected to be affected by this raise?
A. mean and mode only.
B. mean and median only.
C. mode and median only.
D. mean, median, and mode.
Quest 23
If you are interested in how the earnings of a
company have fluctuated over time, it would be best
to use a
A. bar graph.
B. time series graph.
C. pie chart.
D. histogram.
Quest 24
In what way(s) is the concept of geometric mean
useful?
A. In evaluating investment returns.
B. In calculating average growth rates.
C. In assessing the dispersion of the data.
D. Both A and B.
Quest 25
Population parameters are difficult to
calculate due to _____________.
A. Cost prohibitions on data collection
B. The infeasibility of collecting data on the
entire population
C. The fact that samples are difficult to draw
due to the nature of the data
D. A and B
Quest 26
Which of the following is an example
of cross-sectional data?
A. GDP of Indonesia from 1990-2010.
B. Daily price of Telkom stock during the
first quarter.
C. Quarterly housing starts collected over
the last 60 years.
D. Results of market research testing
consumer preferences for soda.
Quest 27
For which of the following population
parameters is sampling not necessary?
A. The average height of Persija players.
B. The average life of light bulbs produced
by a manufacturer.
C. The average content of cereal boxes
produced by a manufacturer.
D. The percentage of the male who support
Candidate A.
Quest 28
An analyst collects data on the weekly
closing price of gold throughout a year. The
scale of this data is ________________.
A. Ratio scale.
B. Ordinal scale.
C. Interval scale.
D. Nominal scale.
Quest 29
If the mean value is smaller than the median
value, the distribution is
A. Skewed to the right.
B. Symmetrical.
C. Negatively skewed.
D. Positively skewed.
Quest 30
f you were interested in predicting the
outcome of the presidential election, you
would use
A. Descriptive statistics
B. Inferential statistics
C. Deductive statistics
D. Inductive statistics