Which of the Following Is Most Likely an Example of an Assigned

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is most likely an example of an assigned group?

• A) a group of students studying for an exam
• B) a group of friends at a party
• C) a group of students asked by their resident advisor to repaint the cafeteria
• D) a group of students practicing for basketball tryouts

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of numerical values, derived from the analysis of a sample, likely to enclose the value of an elusive population parameter.

Trimmed Mean

A trimmed mean is calculated by removing a certain percentage of the largest and smallest values from a data set, then computing the mean of the remaining data.

Bootstrap

A resampling technique used to estimate statistics on a population by sampling a dataset with replacement.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.