A Researcher Is Interested in Studying the Canadian Women's Beliefs

question 168

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in studying the Canadian women's beliefs about the pros and cons of sending a child to daycare. She recruits ten women from a major city in each province and territory and asks them to fill in a survey and mail it back to her. The population for this study would be:

• A) the ten women from each major city that were recruited.
• B) all women in Canada
• C) all of the women in the major cities were recruitment occurred.
• D) the women who actually returned the survey.

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Definitions:

Confidence interval

An estimated range of values which is likely to include an unknown population parameter, based on the given data.

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Confidence interval

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Population standard deviation

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