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Sampling Distributions

Question 1
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If the standard deviations of two different distributions are both increased by a factor of 2, which statistical measure for the combined distribution would be most impacted?

Question 2
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What is the first step in the process of a statistical investigation?

Question 3
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A statistician claims a significant increase in the number of left-handed people over the past decade. Which type of error could occur if this claim is incorrect but they still reject the null hypothesis?

Question 4
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1 mark

Which of these choices is an example of qualitative data?

Question 5
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The mean age of people in the United States is 38.1 years. Is this value a parameter or a statistic?

Question 6
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When researchers aim to gather information from every single individual in a certain population, which method are they using?

Question 7
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What do we call the numerical summary that indicates how spread out the values in a distribution are?

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Question 8
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1 mark

What is not considered an advantage of conducting a blinded experiment compared to an unblinded experiment?

Question 9
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1 mark

In multiple regressions where multicollinearity exists between independent variables what consequence might statisticians expect regarding coefficients estimation?

Question 10
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In a simple random sample (SRS) from a population, which factor primarily determines whether or not the sampling distribution can be considered approximately normal?