1. (a) All the female students who take part in our online class can be describe

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1. (a) All the female students who take part in our online class can be described as what (select the best response)?

A. A Sample

B. A Portion

C. A Level of Measurement

D. A Population

E. Both a and d are correct

(b) If you were to rank the levels of measurement from lowest to highest by the amount of information each one yields, what order would you put them in?

A. Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio

B. Ordinal, interval, ratio, nominal

C. Nominal, interval, ratio, ordinal

D. Interval, ratio, ordinal, nominal

Explanation / Answer

A ) A population includes all of the elements from the set of data.

Sample is a subset of population. A sample consists of one or more observation from the population.

In this example all the females who take addmission in online classes can be consider as population or sample based on the objective or requirement of study

So , it can be sample or population

Option E is correct

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B ) Nominal : Nominal variables are used to labeling variables without any quantitative value.

For example : What is your gender ?

M - Male

F - Female

B ) Ordinal : Ordinal refers to order in measurements.

C ) Interval :  This scale has the properties of the nominal and ordinal scales, but here the magnitude between the consecutive intervals are equal

Interval scale provides information about order and also posseses equal intervals.

D ) Ratio : It has all the characteristic of nominal , ordinal , interval scales. Ratio scale permits the comparison such as being twice high or one half as much.

Option A is correct

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