Ed 602 Quiz 2

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  1. An entire group of persons or elements that have at least one thing in common is referred to as a
    1. statistic.
    2. parameter.
    3. sample.
    4. population.

  2. The statistics we use in research to help us test hypotheses are called
    1. research statistics.
    2. descriptive statistics.
    3. inferential statistics.
    4. ordinary statistics.

  3. A characteristic of a population (such as the population mean) is referred to as a
    1. statistic.
    2. parameter.
    3. sample.
    4. population.

  4. A characteristic of a sample (such as the sample standard deviation) is referred to as a
    1. statistic.
    2. parameter.
    3. sample.
    4. population.

  5. There are 400 students in your school (the population). You wish to draw a sample of 40 students from these 400. You select your sample by taking every tenth student from a list of all the students in the school. This method of sampling is called
    1. cluster sampling.
    2. simple random sampling.
    3. stratified sampling.
    4. systematic sampling.

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