Critical Thinking Questions Case SF2-2 a Co-Worker Needs Your Help!

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Critical Thinking Questions Case SF2-2 A co-worker needs your help! She copied data including totals from an Excel worksheet and pasted the data in a table in an attendance summary publication using the Copy and Paste commands. She just learned that the some of the attendance data has changed. You discuss the problem of changing data with your co-worker. What should you tell your co-worker if she wants to change the data only in the publication and she wants the totals to automatically recalculate? ____

• A) Delete the table and paste the data as an embedded object using the Paste Special command
• B) Use a calculator to retotal the data and type the new totals in the total cells in the table
• C) Delete the table and paste the data into a text box
• D) Open the source workbook, change the data, and save the workbook

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Definitions:

Resamples

The practice of repeatedly drawing samples from a given dataset with the intention of estimating a population parameter.

With Replacement

Sampling with replacement is a method where each selected unit is returned to the population before the next unit is selected, allowing it to be possibly chosen more than once.

Bootstrapping Method

A resampling technique used in statistics to estimate the distribution of a statistic by sampling with replacement from the original dataset.

Bootstrap Distribution

A distribution of estimates generated by resampling from a dataset, used to approximate the sampling distribution of a statistic.