Critical Thinking Questions Case 3-2 After Doing Some Research into the Replacement

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 3-2 After doing some research into the replacement of your desktop, you decide that a mobile computer might in fact be a better choice for you. You switch gears and reread the buyer's guide for mobile computer purchases from your Discovering Computers textbook. All of the following are considerations you should make at the time of purchase EXCEPT ____.

• A) bundled software
• B) memory
• C) processor
• D) storage

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Sample Size

The number of observations or entities used in a study or experiment.

Measure of Variability

A statistic that describes the dispersion of data points in a dataset, such as range, variance, or standard deviation.

Parameter

A quantity that influences the outcome of a mathematical function or statistical operation, often a measure that describes a statistical population.

Measure of Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution.