Of All of the Concepts Sheila Has Learned So Far

question 101

Multiple Choice

Of all of the concepts Sheila has learned so far, she is having the hardest time understanding the use of procedures, including when and how to use them. She asks her instructor for some additional clarification. Sheila is having trouble deciding whether or not to place a set of programming steps in a Sub procedure or a Function procedure, so her instructor tells her to ask herself a series of questions to make that decision. Which one of the following is NOT a question that the instructor suggests that she ask herself?

• A) Will the program be easier to read if the code is placed in a separate procedure?
• B) Does the proposed code perform a single task?
• C) Does this task require more than eight or nine programming statements?
• D) Can the Sub procedure or Function procedure perform its processing by receiving data as arguments, and by returning data either using the Return statement or by using ByRef arguments?

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Definitions:

Chi-Square Statistic

A statistical measure used to evaluate the differences between observed and expected frequencies in categorical variables.

Observed Frequencies

The number of times a particular value or event actually occurs in a dataset.

Expected Frequencies

In statistical analysis, these refer to the counts predicted by a probability model or theoretical distribution, used in the comparison of observed data for goodness-of-fit tests.

Contingency Table

A table often used in statistics to show the frequency distribution of variables, helping in the analysis of the relationship between them.