Which of These Is Not a Way That the Environmental

question 55

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not a way that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforces its regulations?

• A) criminal complaints
• B) permits
• C) administrative fines
• D) mandatory arbitration

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Definitions:

Independent Samples

Two or more sets of observations that are collected independently of each other, often compared in hypothesis testing to assess whether there are differences between groups.

Ordinal Data

A type of data that represents categories with a meaningful order, but differences between categories are not necessarily consistent.

Nonparametric Test

Statistical tests that do not assume a particular distribution of the data, useful for ordinal or nominal data.

Ordinal Data

Data that can be categorized or ranked in order but does not quantitatively measure differences between categories.