Stats Practice Questions for Exam

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Practice questions for Exam 2 This practice exam is not intended to duplicate the actual exam. It is intended to provide practice as part of your exam preparation. 1. The value of a parameter will only change if A. the population changes. B. a different sample is obtained from the population. C. the sample size is increased. D. repeated samples are taken from the same population. 2. What is the random variable of the sampling distribution of x ? A. the parameter being estimated B. the response variable C. the observations in the sample D. the sample mean 3. Which one of the following does NOT have variability? A. a parameter B. data C. a statistic D. a random variable E. a quantitative response variable 4. Which one of the following is NOT a parameter? A. the mean of the measurements on all the individuals in a population. B. the proportion of a population that have a certain characteristic. C. the standard deviation of an entire population. D. the proportion in a survey that favor a certain opinion. 5. Fill in the blank: Central Limit Theorem allows us to compute probabilities on ___________ using the standard Normal table provided the sample size of the random sample is sufficiently large. A. x B. μ C. s D. sample measurements. 6. The sampling distribution of a statistic has all of the following except A. shape. B. center. C. spread. D. correlation. 7. Which one of the following measures the variability of a statistic? A. the standard deviation of the data. B. the standard deviation of the sampling distribution for the statistic. C. the total sum of squares of deviations of the observations about the mean. D. the number of standard deviations that a statistic value differs from the parameter value. 8. A theoretical sampling distribution of a statistic consists of A. the results of a sample. B. the values of a statistic from all possible samples. C. the
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