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Descriptive Statistics

The document discusses descriptive statistics and provides a multiple choice quiz about key terms like mean, median, mode, range, and outlier. It also provides a sample data set of test scores from 30 students and asks to calculate the mean, median, mode, variance, and standard deviation of the data set.

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Descriptive Statistics

The document discusses descriptive statistics and provides a multiple choice quiz about key terms like mean, median, mode, range, and outlier. It also provides a sample data set of test scores from 30 students and asks to calculate the mean, median, mode, variance, and standard deviation of the data set.

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DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

MULTIPLE CHOICE
Part A
1. What is the branch of statistics that involves the organization, summarization, and display
of data?
a) Nominal
b) Descriptive
c) Interval
d) Inferential
2. It is the data entry that is far removed from the other entries in the data set.
a) Range
b) Mean
c) Outlier
d) Mode
3. What is the difference between the maximum and minimum data entries in the set?
a) Range
b) Mean
c) Outlier
d) Mode
4. What is the data entry that occurs with the greatest frequency?
a) Range
b) Mean
c) Outlier
d) Mode
5. What is the measures the center of an ordered data set by dividing it into two equal parts?
a) Range
b) Mean
c) Outlier
d) Median
Part B
Students in an experimental psychology class did research on depression as a sign of stress. A
test was administered to a sample of 30 students. The scores are given.
12 17 11 13 12
18 20 18 17 16
11 19 12 20 14
15 13 19 12 18
14 16 16 15 12
20 12 14 19 11

a) Calculate the mean, median, mode. (2 points each)


b) Find the variance and standard deviation. (5 points each)

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