QUESTION 1 A measure of central tendency describing categorical data can be desc

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QUESTION 1

A measure of central tendency describing categorical data can be described only by the ____.

standard deviation

mean

mode

median

QUESTION 2

Use the median when you have ____.

extreme scores

a negative mean

unknown values

categorical data

QUESTION 3

"For a sample statistic, regular letters are used. For a population parameter, ___ are used."

emoji icons

upside-down letters

Japanese Kanji

Greek letters

QUESTION 4

We like to think of an average as being representative or assuming a(n) ____.

central position

score everyone received

extreme values

outlier value

QUESTION 5

"When extreme scores are present, the median is ____ than the mean at representing the center value of the set."

smaller

more accurate

less accurate

greater

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QUESTION 6

The standard deviation is ___ extreme scores.

insensitive to

sensitive to

negated by

unaffected by

QUESTION 7

"The larger the standard deviation, the ___ in a distribution."

more spread out scores are

closer scores are to the mean

higher the average values are

more skewed scores there are

QUESTION 8

The standard deviation can be used to help us ____.

find the center position in a distribution

if a distribution is skewed

find the mode in a distribution

compare scores from different distributions

QUESTION 9

The range is used almost always to get a ___ estimate of how wide or different scores are from one another

very general

very unrealistic

very precise

very dangerous

QUESTION 10

The standard deviation represents the average amount of ____ in a set of scores.

skewness

variability

the median

change over time

standard deviation

mean

mode

median

Explanation / Answer

1. Normally, the mode is used for categorical data where we wish to know which is the most common category.

Hence answer is mode

2. The median is the middle score for a set of data that has been arranged in order of magnitude. The median is less affected by outliers and skewed data. Outliers are extreme scores.

Hence answer is extreme scores.

3.Like capital letters, Greek letters refer to population attributes. Their sample counterparts, however, are usually Roman letters.

Hence answer is Greek letters

4. Average itself means the centered value of the data

Hence answer here is central position

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