Among the Many Classes Held at Your College or University

question 64

Multiple Choice

Among the many classes held at your college or university, your statistics class has been selected
For a study. This one class is referred to as a ______________.

• A) discrete
• B) sample
• C) census
• D) population

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Variance

A measure of the spread between numbers in a dataset, expressing how much the numbers differ from the average value.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is true, used as a threshold to gauge the strength of the evidence against the null hypothesis.

Standard Deviation

Measures the amount of variance or dispersion of a set of values; a low standard deviation indicates that the values are close to the mean.