chapter 15 - statistics

Question 1

_________ summarize a set of data, measure central tendency, measure of variability, correlation and regression.

Answer 1

descriptive statistics

Question 2

Inferential statistics help us to draw conclusions about _______.

Answer 2

populations

Question 3

which kind of statistics help us answer this question:

is the difference between the means of two samples due to sampling error?

Answer 3

inferential statistics

Question 4

the common average refers to the _____, which you can find by adding all of the scores, and then dividing by the number of scores

Answer 4

mean

Question 5

median refers to the _________

Answer 5

middlemost score in the distribution

Question 6

the _____ refers to the most common score in a frequency distribution

Answer 6

mode