Basic Statistics For Business And Economics 7th Canadian Edition By Douglas A. Lind Test bank
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- The names of the positions on a hockey team, such as forward and defence, are examples of what level of measurement?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- What level of measurement is the price of an admission ticket to a movie theater?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- The final rankings of the top 20 NCAA college basketball teams are an example of which level of measurement?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- Your height and weight are examples of which level of measurement?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- Shoe sizes, such as 7B, 10D and 12EEE, are examples of what level of measurement?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- The Nielsen Ratings break down the number of people watching a particular television show by age. Age is what level of measurement?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- What level of measurement is a bar code?
- Ratio
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Nominal
- A group of women tried five brands of hair spray and ranked them according to preference. What level of measurement is this?
- Nominal
- Ordinal
- Interval
- Ratio
- Which of the following three statements are true?
(i) Statistics is defined as a body of techniques used to facilitate the collection, organization, presentation, analysis and interpretation of information for the purpose of making better decisions.
(ii) The order that runners finish in a race would be an example of continuous data.
(iii) The principal difference between the interval and ratio scale is that the ratio scale has a meaningful zero point.
- (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements.
- (i) and, (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).
- (i) and, (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).
- (ii) and, (iii) are correct statements but not (i).
- (i) If we select 100 persons out of 25,000 registered voters and question them about candidates and issues, the 100 persons are referred to as the population.
(ii) The order that runners finish in a race would be an example of continuous data.
(iii) Qualitative data are usually summarized in graphs and bar charts.
- (i), (ii) and (iii) are all correct statements.
- (i) and, (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).
- (i) and, (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).
- (iii) only is correct.
- The collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing, and interpreting of data is called:
