While Reviewing a Set of Telephone Interview Data, an Editor

question 71

Multiple Choice

While reviewing a set of telephone interview data, an editor found that one of the respondents was below the intended sampling age, and as such had to be eliminated from the dataset. The editor was checking for:

• A) completeness.
• B) consistency.
• C) extraneous variables.
• D) missing data.

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Definitions:

Population Distributions

Represents the spread of values, or observations, of a particular variable across an entire population.

Nonparametric Tests

Statistical tests that do not assume a specific distribution for the data, used for analyzing ordinal or nominal data with unknown parameters.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A nonparametric test used to determine whether there is a significant difference between two independent samples by comparing their rank sums.

Significance Level

The threshold below which a statistical result is considered significant, typically reflecting the probability of wrongly rejecting the null hypothesis.