You Are at the Beach and Collect Some "Leafy"-Looking Multicellular

question 31

Multiple Choice

You are at the beach and collect some "leafy"-looking multicellular green algae.When you return home you consult a field guide on marine organisms and determine that you collected

• A)Ulva
• B)Volvox
• C)Laminaria
• D)Chlamydomonas
• E)Spirogyra

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Definitions:

P-value

The likelihood of seeing a test statistic as extreme or more extreme than the one measured, assuming the null hypothesis holds.

Bootstrap Distribution

A data-driven simulation method for estimating the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the original data.

Small Sample

A subset of a population used in statistical analysis that is considered to be too small to reliably indicate properties of the population.

Permutation Test

A type of non-parametric statistical significance test that involves rearranging the observations among the groups and calculating the difference in outcomes under various permutations.