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REVIEW CHAPTER 1

1. Jared was working on a project to look at global warming and accessed an Internet
site where he captured average global surface temperatures from 1866. Which of the four
methods of data collection was he using?

 Retrospective
 Survey
 Observation

2. Data that describe a characteristic about a population is known as a parameter.


3. Those methods involving the collection, presentation, and characterization of a set of
data in order to properly describe the various features of that set of data are called
statistic.
4. A stock analyst compares the relationship between stock prices and earnings per share
to help him select a stock for investment. What type of the description is?
Observation
5. A method of gathering data when subjects are exposed to certain treatments and the
data of interest is recorded is known as____
Experiment
6. The amount of television viewed by today's youth is of primary concern to Parents
Against Watching Television (PAWT). 250 parents of elementary school-aged children
were asked to estimate the number of hours per week that their child watches television.
Identify the type of data collected by PAWT.
Quantitative
7. A parameter is a portion of a population that is representative of the population from
which it is selected.
8. The process of using sample statistics to draw conclusions about true population
parameters ______
9. Continuous or discrete?
a) Let T be the time until recharge for a battery in a smartphone. Identify whether X.

(discrete)

b) The number of employees of A company (discrete)

c) The color of a student’s hair (qualititative data)

d) The amount of milk produced by a cow in one day (continuous)

e) The number of gallons of milk sold at the store yesterday. (discrete)

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