An Age Cohort Refers to

question 57

Multiple Choice

An age cohort refers to

• A)the hierarchical ranking of different age groups in society.
• B)a type of age-based discrimination.
• C)an aggregate of people born during the same time period.
• D)the discrimination and prejudice toward a particular age group.

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Definitions:

Approximately Normal

Describes a data distribution that closely follows a normal distribution, even though it may not be perfectly normal.

Outliers

Observations that lie an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population.

Approximately Normal

Describes a data distribution that is close to a normal distribution, but not perfectly symmetrical, often applicable in large sample sizes due to the Central Limit Theorem.

T Procedure

A statistical method used to determine the significant differences between two groups of data when the variances of two normal distributions are not known.