All of the Following Are Examples of Information Collected by or for Public

question 79

Multiple Choice

All of the following are examples of information collected by or for public agencies except for:

• A) published statistics such as National Crime Victimization Survey
• B) research produced by faculty at private colleges and universities
• C) nonpublic agency records such as internal police data identifying where most crime happens in their jurisdiction
• D) new data collected by agency staff that is "hybrid" in nature

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Definitions:

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of these numbers by the count of the numbers.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean; it is calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Chi-squared Distribution

The Chi-squared distribution is a statistical distribution widely used in inferential statistics, especially in chi-squared tests, described by degrees of freedom.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another piece of information or parameter.