SQQS5013 EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS

EXERCISE 1

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is concerned that Lyme Disease is on the rise due to an
increase in the deer population. They humanely catch 50 deer and inject 25 with an antibiotic
designed to stop the spread of Lyme Disease. This is an example of an:
Experiment
Observational Study

Taos, Acoma, Zuni, and Cochiti are the names of four Native American pueblos from the
population of pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico. Identify the data level.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

Indicate which level of measurement is being used in the given scenario.

A film critic lists the top 50 greatest movies of all time.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

The number of hours you spent studying each day during the past week
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

Your friend's score on an intelligence test

Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

The cell phone listed as third best on an online electronics review website.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio

Calender year is an example of what scale of measurement?

Interval
Ratio
Nominal
None

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Shades of lipstick available in Watsons, is which scale of measurement?

Interval
Ratio
Nominal
None

Which of these is NOT an example of a nominal scale?

Numbers on a football jersey
Numbers on pool balls
Gender
Exam grades

Farmer Joe separates his apple tree farm into 10 regions. He counts the number of apples
produced in just one of the regions and uses that estimate to predict the number of apples
produced on the whole farm. This is _______ sampling.
Cluster
Convenience
Random Sample
Systematic

An advertising firm, interested in determining how much to emphasize television advertising in a

certain county decides to conduct a sample survey to estimate the average number of hours each
week that households within that county watch television. The county has two towns, A and B,
and a rural area C. There are 155 households in town A, 62 in town B and 93 in the rural area, C.
The firm decides to select 20 households from Town A, 8 households from Town B and 12
households from the rural area. This is _______ sampling.
Cluster
Convenience
Stratified
Systematic

The manager of a bookstore surveys people who buy mystery novels to see if the store should
expand its hours. What is the population?
People who visit the bookstore.
People who buy mystery novels.
Residents of the town
People who like to read.

Disneyland often surveys its guests as they exit a restaurant during their visit. The surveyor
stands at the restaurant exit, counts the number of people leaving, and surveys every 25th guest.
This is a form of:
Simple Random Sample
Stratified Random Sample
Voluntary Response
Systematic Random Sampling

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A student wants to determine the favorite professional sport of students in her high school.
Which of the following samples is most likely to give her a representative sample?
A random Sample of the students in the art honor society
A random sample of students on the basketball team
A random sample of students on the official school enrollment roster
A random sample of students in the library during lunch

A radio station asks its listeners to call in their opinion regarding the use of American forces in
peacekeeping missions.
Convenience
Purposive/Judgement
Snowball
Quota

A researcher wants to study beggars. He knows three area in the city where the beggars are found
in abundance. He will visit only these three area and interview beggars of his choice. What type
of the sampling?
Convenience
Purposive/Judgement
Snowball
Quota

______________ is a type of non-probability sampling in which units are selected into a sample
on the basis of pre-specified characteristics, so that the total sample will have the same
distribution of characteristics assumed to exist in the population being studied.
Convenience
Purposive/Judgement
Snowball
Quota