QUANTITATIVE METHODS MIDTERM BY JEZZA

ASSIGNMENT002 & MIDTERM QUIZ 1

It provides a mechanism for making quantitative decisions about a process or processes.

Select one: c. Statistical Test

Those that make assumptions about the parameters of the population distribution from which the
sample is drawn

Select one: a. Parametric Test

Uses non parametric scale

Select one: a. Ordinal

Parametric tests can provide trustworthy results with distributions that are skewed and nonnormal

Select one: True

Uses parametric scale

Select one: c. Interval

Non parametric tests are used when your data is normal

Select one: False

Non-parametric tests are "distribution-free" and, as such, can be used for non-Normal variables

Select one: True

Parametric tests have no statistical power

Select one: False

The t-statistic rests on the underlying assumption that there is the normal distribution of variable and
the mean in known or assumed to be known.

Select one: True

Parametric test is mainly based on differences in medians

Select one: False

Valid for both non-Normally distributed data and Normally distributed data

Select one: c. Non Parametric Test

With this test, you also estimate the population median and compare it to a reference/target value.

Select one: a. 1-sample Wilcoxon signed rank test

Use this test instead of a one-way ANOVA to find out if two or more medians are different.
Select one: a. Kruskal- Wallis test

It is the test of association for ranked variables.

Select one: b. Goodman Kruska’s Gamma

Descriptive statistics are very important because if we simply presented our raw data it would be hard
to visualize what the data was showing, especially if there was a lot of it.

Select one: True

Non Parametric tests can provide trustworthy results when the groups have different amounts of
variability

Select one: False

The parametric test is the hypothesis test which provides generalizations for making statements about
the mean of the parent population

Select one: True

The intent is to determine whether there is enough evidence to "reject" a conjecture or hypothesis
about the process. The conjecture is called the ______________________

Select one: d. Null

Measures of spread are ways of summarizing a group of data by describing how spread out the scores
are

Select one: True

Measures of central tendency are ways of describing the central position of a frequency distribution for
a group of data.

Select one: True

It is the term given to the analysis of data that helps describe, show or summarize data in a meaningful
way such that, for example, patterns might emerge from the data.

Select one: c. Descriptive Statistics

Use this test to compare differences between two independent groups when dependent variables are
either ordinal or continuous.

Select one: d. Mann-Whitney test

Descriptive statistics therefore enables us to present the data in a more meaningful way, which allows
simpler interpretation of the data

Select one: True

It arise out of the fact that sampling naturally incurs sampling error and thus a sample is not expected to
perfectly represent the population
Select one: b. Inferential Statistics

If you are using interval or ratio scales you use _________________________________.

Select one: b. Parametric Test

The parametric test is the hypothesis test which provides generalizations for making statements about
the ____________________ of the parent population.

Select one: b. Mean

Analysis should reflect the design, and so a matched design should be followed by a matched analysis.

Select one: True

If your measurement scale is nominal or

ordinal then you use ______________________________.

Select one: c. Non Parametric Test

Parametric type of test.

Select one: d. ANOVA Test

Non parametric assume that the data is normally distributed

Select one: False

Use this test instead of the sign test when you have two independent samples.

Select one: b. Mood's Median test

Use when you want to find a correlation between two sets of data.

Select one: c. Spearman Rank Correlation

This test is used to test for differences between groups with ordinal dependent variables

Select one: c. Friedman test

If you have parametric data, you can run a Wilcoxon rank-sum test to compare means

Select one: False

If your data isn’t normally distributed, you can’t run the Kruskal-Wallis test., but you can run the
nonparametric alternative–the ANOVA

Select one: False

1: Use this test to estimate the median of a population and compare it to a reference value or target
value

Select one: a. 1-sample sign test

A population can be small or large, as long as it includes all the data you are interested in.
Select one: True

A skewed distribution is one reason to run a parametric test.

Select one: False

LAB EXERCISE 002

What is the mode of the scores of the subject Social Science?

Select one: c. 2

What other solution can you do to compute for the average of the scores?

Select one: a. =SUM()/COUNT()

What is the mode of the scores of the subject Mathematics?

Select one: b. 6

What is the median of the scores of the subject Language?

Select one: b. 2.5

What is the average of scores of the subject Social Science?

Select one: d. 2.8

What function is use to compute for the average in Excel?

Select one: c. =AVERAGE()

What is the median of the scores of the subject Science?

Select one: c. 3

What is the mean of the scores of the subject Language?

Select one: b. 3.07

What is the average of scores of the subject Mathematics?

Select one: b. 5

SHORT QUIZ 2 & MIDTERN QUIZ 2

The formula of sample mean is

Select one: True

Display the relationship between two quantitative or numeric variables by plotting one variable against
the value of another variable

Select one: b. Scatter Plots

It is the most frequently occurring variable in a distribution.

Select one: c. Mode

A low standard deviation indicates that the data points are spread out over a wider range of values.

Select one: False

What is the mean of the scores of the subject Language?

Select one: 3.07

It is defined as the middle of a distribution in a ranked data

Select one: a. Median

What is the median of the scores of the subject Language?

Select one: 2.5

In statistics and probability, quartiles are values that divide your data into quarters provided data is
sorted in an ascending order.

Select one: True

Descriptive Statistics are used to present _______________ descriptions in a manageable form.

Select one: b. Quantitative

What is the average of scores of the subject Social Science?

Select one: 2.8

It is the measurement of average distance between each quantity and mean

Select one: b. c. Standard Deviation

Percentile is a way to represent position of a values in data set.

Select one: True

Measures of central location include the range, quartiles and the interquartile range, variance and
standard deviation

Select one: False

It is defined as the middle of a distribution in a ranked data

Select one: a. Median

It is a measure of where the "middle fifty" is in a data set

Select one: a. Interquartile Range

It is the difference between lowest and highest value.

Select one: a. Range

It is defined as "the statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire
distribution."

Select one: d. Central Tendency

Variance is a square of average distance between each quantity and mean.

Select one: True

The _______, ___________ and ____________ are the three commonly used measures of central
tendency

Select one: a. Mean, Median, Mode

It gives an indication of how close an individual observation clusters about the mean value

Select one: d. Variance

Mean may be influenced profoundly by the extreme variables called _____________________.

Select one: b. Outliers

Negative IQR is fine, if your data is in descending order

Select one: True

A set cannot have more than one mode.

Select one: True

It involves the examination across cases of one variable at a time.

Select one: d. Univariate Analysis

A low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be close to the mean of the data set.

Select one: True

We use inferential statistics to make judgments of the probability that an observed difference between
groups is a dependable one or one that might have happened by chance in this study

Select one: False

With descriptive statistics you are simply ________________ what is or what the data shows

Select one: a. Describing

Descriptive Statistics can be used to highlight potential relationships between variables.

Select one: True

Descriptive Statistics simply summaries about the sample and the measures

Select one: True

It provides a visual representation of the data.

Select one: c. Graphical Method

Descriptive statistics are typically distinguished from ____________________________.

Select one: c. Inferential Statistics

It is a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically

referenced information; that is, data identified according to location

Select one: d. GIS

There are four major characteristics of a single variable that we tend to look at

Select one: False

Measures of dispersion aim to provide an accurate description of the entire data

Select one: False

Every time you try to describe a large set of observations with a single indicator you run the risk of
distorting the original data or losing important detail.

Select one: True

Display networks of relationships among variables, enabling researchers to identify the nature of
relationships that would otherwise be too complex to conceptualize

Select one: a. Sociograms

It is used to describe the basic features of the data in a study

Select one: a. Descriptive Statistics

Display the relationship between two quantitative or numeric variables by plotting one variable against
the value of another variable

Select one: c. Scatter Plots

LAB EXERCISE 003 BY JEZZA

Question 1

Procedure:

Enter data in A3:B7 the color of 5nips and their total.

Question:

What are the variables of the activity?

Select one: b. Color and Number of M&Ms/Nips

Question 2

Procedure:

Calculate the variance for midterm scores by breaking down the formula:

Where: is the mean, Xi is each scores of the variables, and N is the number of scores

Enter the following labels ni the appropriate cells:

A9: Mean = C2:

A10: N= D2:

A11: Variance=

A12: Std. Dev=

Question:

What is the formula for variance?

Select one: d.

Question 3

Procedure:

Enter the following fomula:

B9: =average(B3:B7)

B10: =count(B3:B7)

Question:

What does this line does? average(B3:B7)

Select one: d. Get the mean of the scores

Question 4

Pocedure:

Enter the following formula:

C3: = B3-$B$9

Copy the formula up to C7.

Question:
What is purpose of the $?

Select one:

b. Absolute Reference

Question 5

Procedure:

Enter the formula:

D3: = C3^2

Copy the formula up to D7.

Question:

What is the equivalent of the formula given in the variance formula?

Select one: c.

Question 6

Procedure

Enter the following formula:

D9: =sum(D3:D7) then

B12: =D9/(B10-1)

Question:

What are your expected outputs in this number?

Select one: d. Get the variance

Question 7

Procedure:

Enter the following formula:

B13: =sqrt(B12)

Question:

What does the formula computed?

Select one: d. Standard Deviation

Question 8

Pocedure:
By now, you should have completed your table. For excel shortcuts:

A14: =min(B3:B7)

A15: =max(B3:B7)

A16: =mode(B3:B7)

A17: =median(B3:B7)

A18: =var(B3:B7)

A19: =stdev(B3:B7)

Question:

What is the shortcut for getting the variance?

Select one: b. =var(B3:B7)

Question 9

What is the shortcut for getting the standard deviation?

Select one: b. =stdev(B3:B7)

Question 10

Identify what branch of statistics focus on the measures of central tendency and dispersion.

Select one: a. Descriptive Statistics

What are your expected outputs in this number?

Get the variance

Procedure:

Enter the following formula:

B13: =sqrt(B12)

Question:

What does the formula computed?

Select one: Standard Deviation

Use this test instead of the sign test when you have two independent samples.

Select one: b. Mood's Median test

Use when you want to find a correlation between two sets of data.

Select one: c. Spearman Rank Correlation