To Gain the Most Information About Tests and How to Succeed

question 49

Multiple Choice

To gain the most information about tests and how to succeed in a course, look at

• A) the course syllabus.
• B) the schedule of classes.
• C) the course web site.
• D) both the syllabus and the web site of the course.

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Definitions:

Outliers

Outliers are data points that differ significantly from other observations, often lying far outside the majority of a data distribution.

Parameter

A numeric characteristic that describes and summarizes an entire population of data.

Statistic

A characteristic or measure obtained from a sample of data, used to estimate the value of a population parameter.

Variance

A measure of how spread out a set of data is, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.