Existing Statistics Research

question 28

Multiple Choice

Existing statistics research

• A)is the examination of numerical information from government documents or official reports.
• B)is most frequently used for descriptive research.
• C)is done by asking people questions using a written questionnaire.
• D)allows a researcher to discover features in the content of large amounts of material that might otherwise go unnoticed.
• E)may be time consuming if the researcher does not carefully consider the meaning of what he or she finds.

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