In the Context of an Experiment, a Variable Is

question 40

Multiple Choice

In the context of an experiment, a variable is

• A) any factor that can vary across participants or situations.
• B) any phenomenon or characteristic that can be measured.
• C) any phenomenon or characteristic of a participant or situation that has a specific value.
• D) the unknown quantity that the experiment will determine.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a specified level of confidence.

Population Variance

The measurement of how data points in an entire population are spread out from the mean of the population.

Standard Deviation

The measure of the dispersion or variability in a set of numbers, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the mean.

Variance

Measures the spread between numbers in a dataset, indicating how much the data points differ from the mean.