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The Population Mean of a Standardized Test on Cheerfulness Is

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The population mean of a standardized test on Cheerfulness is 50. An attitude coach who conducts self-improvement workshops administered the test to a sample of his participants. The obtained sample mean was 55. Since the obtained sample mean was 5 points higher than the population mean can we, therefore, conclude that the workshop was effective? Why or why not?


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Trends

Patterns or directions identified over periods of time in data sets or within a series of data points.

Multiple Regression

A statistical technique that models the relationship between a dependent variable and multiple independent variables to understand the impact of each on the dependent variable.

Predict the Value

The process of using information from existing data or a statistical model to estimate or forecast the value of an unknown variable.

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples to see if at least one is significantly different from the others.

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