Which of the Following Statements Is Not True About the Currency

question 67

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is not true about the currency of secondary data?

• A) The data may not be updated frequently enough for the problem at hand.
• B) The time lag between data collection and publication may be long.
• C) The value of secondary data is diminished as it becomes dated.
• D) All of the above are correct.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A metric that gauges the extent to which a collection of numbers is spread or varies.

Variance

A measure of how spread out a set of data is, specifically, the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Compute

To calculate or process information by performing mathematical operations, often using a computer.

Unbiased Estimates

Statistical estimates that are expected to be equal to the true value of the parameter being measured, not systematically over or underestimating the true value.