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Statistical Methods (Metstat)

Responsi Class-1

Try to solve all the questions below:

1. How do the ordinal data differ from nominal data?
2. State whether each of the following observations is an example of discrete or
continuous data.
a) The number of suicides on the United States in a specified year.
b) The concentration of lead in the sample of water.
c) The length of time that a cancer patient survives after diagnosis.
d) The number of previous miscarriages an expectant mother has had
3. State whether each of the following observations is an example of nominal, ordinal,
interval, or rasio data.
a) Gender
b) One’s preference to opinion: strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree
c) Well-being score after nutritional intervention
d) Blood type
e) The type of work of the patriarch
f) Cause of disease
g) Longitude and latitude in a place
h) IQ
i) GPA
j) Total Population
k) level of willingness to pay taxes
l) Variety of Corn
m) Television Channel
4. State the following statements included in descriptive statistics or inference statistics:
a) As many as 99% of Veterinary Medicine students are happy with the Statistical
Method Course .
b) One of the results of a recent opinion poll that stated that most Americans agree to
the establishment of a new nuclear power center.
Answer T if the statements below are true and F if the statements below are false. And
give reasons if the answer you choose is wrong.
a) Election results announced through the Quick Count is a descriptive statistics.
b) From the results of a recent opinion poll in the city of Bogor it can be concluded
that many Bogor people agreed to reducing the number of angkot is a descriptive
statistics.
5. Answer T if the statements below are true and F if the statements below are false. And
give reasons if the answer you choose is FALSE.
a) Values that describe the characteristics of an example are parameters
b) Statistics are values that describe the characteristics of the population.
c) The 2010 population census is a survey that takes data from a portion of the
population.
d) Parameter values vary, depending on the sample taken.
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6. Identify the experimental units on which the following variables are measured:
a) Gender of a student
b) Number of errors on a midterm exam
c) Age of a cancer patient
d) Number of flowers on an azalea plant
e) Color of a car entering a parking lot
7. Identify each variable as quantitative or qualitative:
a) Amount of time it takes to assemble a simple puzzle
b) Number of students in a first-grade classroom
c) Rating of a newly elected politician (excellent, good, fair, poor)
d) State in which a person lives

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