A General Principle or a Set of Principles That Attempts

question 93

Multiple Choice

A general principle or a set of principles that attempts to explain how a set of separate facts are related to one another is called ____________

• A) a theory.
• B) an hypothesis.
• C) applied research.
• D) basic research.

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Definitions:

Stratified Random Sample

A method of sampling that involves dividing a population into smaller groups, known as strata, and then randomly selecting samples from each stratum.

Sample Standard Deviation

Sample standard deviation is a statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean and is computed from the square root of the variance of the sample.

Sample Mean

The average value computed from a sample of a population, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Population Mean

The population mean is the average of all the values in a population. It is a measure of central tendency that summarises the characteristic of the entire population.