Basic Statistics For Business And Economics 7th Canadian Edition By Douglas A. Lind Test bank
- descriptive statistics
- inferential statistics
- mutually exclusive statistics
- qualitative
- parametric methods
- Which one of the following statistics is NOT an example of discrete data?
- Number of households watching Canadian Idol.
- Number of employees reporting in sick.
- Distance traveled between Toronto and Ottawa.
- Number of members of the York Region Lions Club.
- Number of family members.
- Which of the following is an example of continuous data?
- Family income
- Number of students in a statistics class
- Postal codes of shoppers
- Rankings of baseball teams in a league
- The incomes of a group of 50 loan applicants are obtained. Which level of measurement is income?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- A bank asks customers to evaluate the drive-thru service as to good, average, or poor. Which level of measurement is this classification?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- If Gallup, Harris and other pollsters asked people to indicate their political party affiliation-Liberal, Conservative or NDP, the data gathered would be an example of which scale of measurement?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- The members of each basketball team wear numbers on the back of their jerseys. What scale of measurement are these numbers considered?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- A questionnaire contained a question regarding marital status. The respondent checked single, married, divorced, separated or widowed. What is the scale of measurement for this question?
- Ratio
- Interval
- Ordinal
- Nominal
- Respondents were asked, "Do you now earn more than or less than you did five years ago?" What is this level of measurement?
- Interval
- Ratio
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- If unemployment is 5.5% of the population, what is this level of measurement?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval or ratio
- Descriptive
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Act requires employers to classify their employees by gender and national origin. Which level of measurement is this?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- What level of measurement are the Centigrade and Fahrenheit temperature scales?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- What level of measurement is the number of auto accidents reported in a given month?
