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23. Which of the following is not a good strategy for imputing missing data?
A) Substituting missing values with the sample mean for that variable
B) Substituting missing values with the standard deviation for that variable
C) Imputing missing values with several approaches, then taking the
average
Chapter 5
30. Which of the following parameters influence the choice of the sample
size?
A) Variability of the target variable in the population
B) Size of the population
C) Both
31. What is the advantage of the sampling error over the non-sampling
error?
A) Sampling error can be quantified according to probability laws
B) Sampling error is much smaller than non-sampling error
C) Sampling error can be eliminated by training interviewers
35. Which of the following situations does not favor the use of a census?
A) There is high variance in the characteristic to be measured.
B) The cost of nonsampling errors is low.
C) The population is large.
38. In which one of the following ways do cluster sampling and stratified
sampling differ:
A) the former is probabilistic and the latter is non probabilistic
B) there is no difference
C) with respect to homogeneity and heterogeneity within/across subgroups
39. All of the factors listed below favor the use of probability sampling
except:
A) Nonsampling errors are likely to be an important factor
B) The nature of the research is conclusive
C) The population is heterogeneous with respect to variables of interest
40. The difference between the mean value for the sample and the true
mean value of the population is a measure of :
A) Precision
B) Accuracy
C) Randomness
Chapter 6
44. What is the probability distribution for sample means extracted through
simple random sampling?
A) The uniform distribution
B) The Normal distribution
C) The F distribution
45. The 95% confidence interval for a mean from a large sample has
A) A width of about twice the standard error of the mean
B) A width of about four times the standard error of the mean
C) A width of about ten times the standard error of the mean
48. What is the relation between level of confidence and the level of
significance ()?
A) The level of confidence is 1+
B) The level of confidence is 1
C) There is no difference
52. Which test is more appropriate for mean comparison with related
samples?
A) The t-test
B) The F-test
C) The Wilcoxon test
53. What is the distribution of the ratio of two variances under the null
hypothesis of variance equality?
A) The t-distribution
B) The Normal distribution
C) The F-distribution
54. A t-test in two means returns a t-statistic with a p-value of 0.03. Which
of the following is correct?
A) The means of the two populations are equal at 97% confidence level
B) The means of the two populations are different between each other at
95% confidence level but not at a 99% confidence level
C) The mean of the two populations show a 3% difference
Chapter 7
56. When does one-way ANOVA rejects the hypothesis of mean equality?
A) When all means are different
B) When at least two means are different
C) When all means are equal
57. What is the main difference between planned comparisons and post-hoc
tests?
A) Planned comparison take into account the familywise error, post-hoc
tests dont
B) Post-hoc tests take into account the familywise error, planned
comparison dont
C) Planned comparison are decided prior to the analysis, post-hoc test
afterwards
66. The t-test on regression coefficients tests the null hypothesis that:
A) There is no collinearity
B) The residuals are normally distributed
C) The coefficient is significantly different from 0
73. What is the difference between stepwise and forward model selection
methods?
A) The stepwise method allows the removal of variables after they have
been included, the forward method does not
B) The stepwise method goes backward (removing variables), the forward
method goes forward (adding variables)
C) There is no difference
Chapter 9
76. Which of the following test works with strictly nominal variable?
A) Goodman and Kruskal's Lambda
B) Somers d statistic
C) Tau statistic
78. What is the relation between the Pearson chi-square test and log-linear
analysis in a 22 table?
A) The Pearson chi-square test is more powerful
B) Log-linear analysis does not work with 22 tables
C) The Pearson chi-square test corresponds to the test on 2nd order
interaction in log-linear anaysis
Chapter 10
86. Which of the following is the Kaiser rule for deciding the number of
components?
A) Extracted components should account for at least 70% of the variability
B) The eigenvalues of the extracted component should be larger than the
mean eigenvalue
C) The scree diagram shows an elbow
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
103. What is the difference between the centroid and average linkage
methods?
A) Centroid computes all potential distances between two clusters, then
takes the average, while the average linkage computes the mean values
within each cluster, then computes the distance between cluster means
B) Average linkage computes all potential distances between two clusters,
then takes the average, while the centroid method computes the mean
values within each cluster, then computes the distance between cluster
means
C) There is no difference
104. What is the difference between single linkage method and the complete
linkage method?
A) The single linkage considers the minimum distance between
observations belonging to different clusters, the complete linkage the
maximum distance
B) The complete linkage considers the minimum distance between
observations belonging to different clusters, the single linkage the
maximum distance
C) The single linkage considers one distance between two clusters only
(taken randomly), the complete distance considers all distances between
two clusters
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
115. What does the percentage of inertia for a given dimension measure?
A) The percentage of total variability explained by that dimension
B) The percentage of the existing association explained by that dimension
C) The percentage of variability not explained by that dimension
117. What are the implications of a row principal normalization for extracting
the dimensions?
A) That distances between categories of the row variable are assumed to
be more meaningful
B) That distances between categories of the row and column variables are
ignored
C) That distances between categories of the column variables are assumed
to be more meaningful
Chapter 15
122. What is the difference between the structural and the measurement
equation in a SEM (Structural Equation Modeling)?
A) The measurement equation relates latent construct to manifest
variables, the structural equation describes the overall relationships
among endogenous and exogenous variables, including latent variables
B) The structural equation relates latent construct to manifest variables,
the measurement equation describes the overall relationships among
endogenous and exogenous variables, including latent variables
C) There is no difference
123. What is the difference between path analysis and structural equation
model?
A) Path analysis has no latent variables
B) Path analysis does not allow for correlation between explanatory
variable
C) Path analysis has no dependent variable
126. What does a chi-square test with a probability of 0.10 mean in a SEM
framework?
A) That the theoretical model is not rejected by the data at the 5%
significance level
B) That the theoretical model is rejected by the data at the 5% significance
level
C) That difference between the original and estimated covariance matrices
is 10%
129. Which of the following is the model for a nominal dependent variable
with metric explanatory variables?
A) The regression model
B) Multinomial logistic regression
C) Logit model
130. Which of the following is the link function for logistic regression?
A) The logistic transformation
B) The logit transformation
C) The exponential transformation
131. What is the difference between logistic regression and the probit model?
A) In logistic regression residuals follow the logistic distribution, in probit
models they follow the normal distribution
B) In logistic regression residuals follow the logit distribution, in probit
models they follow the logistic distribution
C) Logistic regression deals with metric explanatory variables, in probit
model the explanatory variables are categorical
135. What is the difference between the GLM and the generalized linear
model?
A) The generalized linear model has a categorical dependent variable, the
GLM has a metric dependent variable
B) The generalized linear model has only categorical explanatory variables,
the GLM has only metric dependent variables
C) Both of the above
136. What is the difference between the ordered logit model and the
multinomial logit model?
A) The ordered probit model has a categorical ordered dependent variable,
the multinomial logit a metric continuous dependent variable
B) The ordered probit model has a categorical ordered dependent variable,
the multinomial logit a categorical nominal dependent variable
C) The ordered probit model has a categorical ordered dependent variable,
the multinomial logit has more than one categorical dependent variable