Question: Sharon wants to estimate the percentage of parents who use cloth diapers. She asks a randomly selected group of 75 parents whether or not they use cloth diapers. What is the population?
Question: Matthew wants to estimate the mean height of students standing his college. He records the heights of 100 randomly selected students attending the college. What is the population?
Question: Anna wants to estimate the mean number of siblings for each student in her school. She records the number of siblings for each of 75 randomly selected students in the school. What is the statistic?
Question: A statistic is a numerical characteristic of the sample. In the case, the statistic is the mean number of siblings for the randomly selected students. Which of the following represents the population in the scenario below?
Question: A 2016 pew research poll estimated the proportion of people supporting each presidential candidate in the fall election. They based their estimate on telephone interviews of 2010 adults living in all 50 U.S States. They asked each participant which presidential and vice presidential candidate they support, and used that data to calculate the proportions. What is the statistics in the experiment?
Question: Raymond wants to estimate the percentage of parents who used cloth diapers. He asks a randomly selected group of 200 parents whether or not they use cloth diapers. What is the parameter?
Question: Timothy wants to estimate the percentage of homeowners that own at least one dog. He surveys 100 randomly selected hotel women’s to determine whether or not they own dogs. What is the parameter?
Question: Nick wants to estimate the percentage of homeowners that own at least one dog. He surveys 150 randomly selected individuals to determine whether or not they own dogs. What is the sample?
Question: You want to find the average test score of the students in every math class in 11th grade. There are 15 math classes geared. You survey the scores of 7 math classes, and you calculate that average test score is 83% which of the following represent the sample and the parameter in this scenario?
Question: There are 6000 people attended a political debate at a convention centre. There are three candidates who are participating in the debate. Mr. Smith, Mr., Jones. You want to find out which candidate is most popular amongst the people attending. You ask 500 peoples as they walk into the convention centre. Which represents the population in this scenario?
Question: What term refers to all individuals, objects, or measurements whose properties are being studied?
Question: Is the statement true or false.? Data are observations of possible outcomes.
Question: Joseph wants to estimate the mean number of siblings for each student in his school. He records the number of siblings for each of 200 randomly selected students in the school. What is the sample?
Question: A sample is all individuals, objects, or measurements whose properties are being studied.
Question: Angela wants to estimate the mean number of siblings for each student in her school. She records the number of siblings for each of 200 randomly selected students in the school. What is the data?
Instituition / Term
Term
Year 2022
Institution
MATH 225N Statistical Reasoning for the Health Sciences
