Stats Exam 1 Pearson | 100% Correct
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A table or listing that shows values and how many times each value occurs is: - ✔✔Frequency
distribution
What is the simplest, most fundamental level of measurement? - ✔✔Nominal
Students are given grades of A, B, C, D, or F on their homework assignments. The use of letter grades
would be an example of what level of measurement? - ✔✔Ordinal
The scale of measurement that assumes there is an underlying scale of equal units, but without an
absolute zero point, is the ______ scale of measurement. - ✔✔interval
What reflects the interval or interval/ration level of measurement? - ✔✔A students GPA
Determining a person's level of education by asking him/her to indicate the number of school years
completed would involve measurement on a _________ level of measurement. - ✔✔ratio and/or
interval
A sample is? - ✔✔a portion of a population
Researchers generally want to be able to generalize their results to a _______, but to do so, they
typically carry out their research on the basis of a _______. - ✔✔Population, sample
The marketing director of a company wants to conduct research on the buying habits of the company's
customer base. The entire group of customers would be an example of a ________. - ✔✔Population
The marketing director of a company examines data collected from 125 customers and determines that
customers spent an average of $274.55 in purchases from the company over the past 12 months. The
collection or group of 125 customers would represent a: - ✔✔sample
