EDUC 200 (STATISTICS WITH COMPUTER APPLICATION) MID-TERM EXAMINATION COVERAGE

INSTRUCTOR: ENGR. R.S. MOSO

1. __________ are used to infer that the results from a sample are reflective of Problem: A health educator wants to evaluate a smoking cessation program in
the true population scores. terms of helping participants smoke less. A total of 10 male smokers
A) Descriptive statistics C) Correlated statistics participate in the study. The number of cigarettes they smoke daily is
B) Regression statistics D) Inferential statistics recorded before and after they participate in the smoking cessation
2. The _________ states the means are ________. program. Did the program work? Here are the data.
A) null hypothesis; not equal C) null hypothesis; equal
B) research hypothesis; equal D) research hypothesis; not equal
3. A sampling distribution is
A) based on the assumption the null hypothesis is true
B) a probability distribution
C) specified by the null hypothesis
D) All the above
4. The F statistic is a ratio of two types of variance: ______ variance and error
variance.
A) random B) individual C) true D) systematic
5. Cohen's d expresses effect size in terms of _________.
A) standard deviation units C) mean units
B) range units D) variance units
7. If a mechanic looks at your car engine and says there is nothing wrong with it
and your car breaks down when you leave the garage, what type of error did
the mechanic make?
A) Type I. B) Type II C) Systematic error D) Matrix error
8. If the null hypothesis was rejected and there was 1 chance out of 100 that the
decision was wrong, what was the alpha level in the study?
A) 0.01 B) 0.10 C) 0.001 D) 0.100
9. The probability of a Type II error is related to __________.
A) sample size C) effect size
B) significance level (alpha) D) All of the above.
10. Which of the following is NOT a reason for a Type II error?
A) incomprehensive instructions to participants
B) a very weak manipulation of the independent variable
C) using a dependent measure that is unreliable and insensitive
D) increasing sample size
11. Dr. P is using a t-test to compare the means of two groups. There are 25
participants in each group. How many degrees of freedom are there in this
test?
A) 23 B) 24 C) 48 D) 49
12. Which one of the following variables is not categorical?
A) Age of a person.
B) Gender of a person: male or female.
C) Choice on a test item: true or false.
D) Marital status of a person (single, married, divorced, other)
13. Which one of these statistics is unaffected by outliers?
A) Mean C) Standard deviation
B) Interquartile range D) Range
14. It is the balance point of a distribution.
A) Mean B) Mode C) Median D) Standard Deviation
15. It is simply the value that appears most frequently in the set.
A) Mean B) Mode C) Median D) Standard Deviation
16. It is any of the nine values that divide the sorted data into ten equal parts.
A) Quartiles B) Percentiles C) Deciles D) Variance
17. It is not a percent but a value in the data set that marks a certain percentage of
the way through the data.
A) Quartiles B) Percentiles C) Deciles D) Variance
18. It is the arithmetic mean computed by considering relative importance of each
items.
A) Estimated Median C) Estimated Mean
B) Estimated Mode D) Coefficient of Skewness
19. It can measures absolute variability but not relative variability.
A) Variance C) Coefficient of Skewness
B) Coefficient of Variation D) Standard Deviation
20. It is the difference between the largest and the smallest observed values in a
data set.
A) Range C) Interquartile Range
B) Semi – Quartile Range D) Quartile Range
21. It is calculated as one half the difference between the upper and lower quartiles.
A) Range C) Interquartile Range
B) Semi – Quartile Range D) Quartile Range
22. It is the measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued
random variable about its mean.
A) Measure of Kurtosis C) Coefficient of Skewness
B) Coefficient of Variation D) Standard Deviation
23. A statistics that allows us to compare two different data sets that have different
units of measurement.
A) Measure of Kurtosis C) Coefficient of Skewness
B) Coefficient of Variation D) Standard Deviation
24. It can be used to describe the property of curves.
A) Measure of Kurtosis C) Coefficient of Skewness
B) Coefficient of Variation D) Standard Deviation
25. Given IQ scores are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 100
and standard deviation of 15, the proportion of people with IQs above 130 is:
A) 95% B) 68% C) 5% D) 2.5%
A) alpha B) Type I error C) beta D) Type II error
B) confounding D) response bias