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Question 1 In a chi-square test, the "expected" counts are the values we expect if there is an association between
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Question 2 How does the shape of the t-distribution change as the sample size increases?
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a. It becomes more normal looking.

b. It becomes broader.

c. It becomes flatter.

d. It becomes skewed.

Question 3 If the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient shows zero value, this definitely means that
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Question 4 The straight line equation y=b0 + b1x is an example of a linear relationship. This means that the
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Question 5 It is one of the measures of correlation which quantifies the strength as well as the direction of such
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a. Autocorrelation

b. Correlation Analysis

c. Pearson's product-moment correlation

d. Spearman's Rank
Question 6 What should Levene's test be in order to use the 'equal variance assumed' row of a t-test?
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a. It should be significant (P < 0.01)

b. It should be significant (P > 0.05)

c. It should be significant (P < 0.001)

d. It should be significant (P < 0.005)

Question 7 An independent t-test can be used to assess which of the following?

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a. It assesses relationships between two interval data sets

b. It assesses differences between two groups of participants

c. It assesses how many factors there are in questionnaire data

d. It assesses relationships between two ratio data sets

Question 8 It is a measure of the strength of a linear association between two variables and is denoted by r.
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a. Pearson's product-moment coefficient

b. Correlation Analysis

c. Autocorrelation

d. Spearman's Rank

Question 9 What is the value of the perfect positive correlation

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a. 0

b. 1

c. -1

d. +1

Question 10 It is the nonparametric version of the Pearson product-moment correlation.

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a. Mood's Median test

b. Spearman Rank Correlation

c. Kruskal - Wallis test

d. Mann-Whitney test

Question 11 What is the reason why it is not necessary to create a scatter chart?
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a. We cannot interpret the analysis without the chart

b. It has no significance and is not related to the analysis

c. It is needed for the second step.

d. It is just for visualizing the data

Question 12 The main purpose of an ANOVA is to test if two or more groups differ from each other significantly in
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Question 13 Which type of statistical test should the researcher do?

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a. Correlation Analysis

b. Chi-Square

c. one sample t-test

d. one sample z-test

Question 14 A correlation coefficient that is applied to ranked variables was introduced by Spearman, whilst
Complete Pearson and Fisher introduced independently correlation coefficients that measure the strength of the
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Question 15 Correlation coefficient  ‘r’ is calculated through the what formula

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a.

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d.

Question 16 7. Now that we have got Excel to calculate the correlation coefficient we need to interpret it to
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What is the value of the perfect negative correlation

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a. 0

b. +1

c. 1

d. -1

Question 17
The degrees of freedom for a 2 x 2 cross-tabulation table for the chi-square test of independence equal
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a. 3
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c. 2

d. 1

Question 18
It is the non-parametric alternative test to the independent sample t-test.
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a. Spearman Rank Correlation

b. Mood's Median test

c. Mann-Whitney test

d. Kruskal-Wallis test

Question 19
What must data be in order for a Pearson's product-moment to be conducted?
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a. Homogeneity of variance

b. All of these

c. Normally distributed

d. Free from outliers

Question 20 It is any statistical hypothesis test in which the test statistic follows a Student's t-distribution under the
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a. T-Test

b. Z-Test

c. Correlation Analysis

d. One Way ANOVA

Question 21
My friend, Bob, believes that his supermarket's prices are lower than mine. We construct a list of
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Select one:
a. Bob has a directional hypothesis and should do an independent t-test

b. Bob has a non-directional hypothesis and should do a one sample t-test

c. Bob has a non-directional hypothesis and should do an independent t-test

d. Bob has a directional hypothesis and should do a matched t-test

Question 22
The Chi Square statistic is commonly used for testing relationships between categorical variables.
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Question 23
Why must you review the materials produced using statistics?
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a. To organize data

b. To collect the data in an appropriate way

 c. To draw conclusions and attempt to answer the researcher's question/hypothesis

d. To identify the group to be studied

Question 24
We use unplanned comparisons to determine
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a. which elements omitted from the structural model should be included

b. which pair or combination of means are significantly different

c. whether the F ratio is statistically significant

d. the size of the difference between groups

Question 25
It is a single value that attempts to describe a set of data by identifying the central position within that
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a. Central Tendency

b. Measures of Dispersion

c. Measures of Location

d. Measures of Spread

Question 26
The chi-square goodness-of-fit test is used to test discrete distributions only.
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True

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Question 27
If a distribution deviates markedly from normality then you take the risk that the statistic will be
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Answer: False

Question 28 Which of the following is an assumption of one-way ANOVA comparing samples from three or more
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a. All of the mentioned

b. The samples associated with each population are randomly selected and are independent from
all other samples

c. The response variable within each of the k populations have equal variances.

d. All the response variables within the k populations follow a normal distributions.

Question 29 In one-way ANOVA, which of the following is used within the F-ratio as a measurement of the variance
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a. MSTR

b. SSTR

c. SSE

d. MSE
Question 30 The null hypothesis for the chi-square goodness-of-fit test states that the distribution of
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a. cases for each group is equal to the expected distribution based on theory/knowledge of the
population.

b. sample means is equal to expectation based on fe.

c. the sample means is equal to the expected distribution based on theory/knowledge of the
population.

d. sample means for each group is equal.

Question 31 When conducting an ANOVA, FDATA will always fall within what range?
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a. between 0 and infinity

b. between 0 and 1

c. between 1 and infinity

d. between negative infinity and infinity

Question 32 It is used when evaluating Tests of Independence under Chi-Square statistic .

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1.00 a. Crosstabulation

b. Variate Table

c. Tabulation

d. Observation

Question 33 A potential source of confusion in working out what statistics to use in analysing data is whether your
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Question 34 In contingency analysis, we expect the actual frequencies in each cell to approximately match the
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Question 35 Correlation analysis can study a wide range of variables and their interrelations.
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Question 36 The sum of squares due to the column factor for one way analysis of variance is given by
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a. SSE-SST

b SST SSE
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c. No Answer

d. SST-SSE

Question 37 What assumption(s) must be met to conduct an independent-samples t-test?

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a. All of these

b. The data from the dependent variable must be normally distributed

c. There must be random sampling of cases

d. The data from the dependent variable must be interval or ratio

Question 38 It is a hypothesis which the researcher tries to disprove, reject or nullify.

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a. Alternative Hypothesis

b. Null Hypothesis

c. Null

d. Hypothesis

Question 39 T-test can help you to figure out if you need to reject the null hypothesis or accept the alternate
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Question 40 As the experimenter changes the independent variable, the change in the _________________________ is
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a. Independent Variable

b. Dependent Variable

c. Erroneous Variable

d. Continuous Variable

Question 41 It is the process of strictly defining variables into measurable factors. The process defines fuzzy
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a. Definition

b. Experimentation

c. Explanation

d. Operationalization

Question 42 It is used to understand the nature of relationships between two individual variables.
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a. ANOVA

b. T-Test

c Chi Square
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d. Correlation Analysis

Question 43 This method of sampling is a non-probability sampling technique wherein the assembled sample has
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Select one:
a. Purpose Sampling

b. Convenience Sampling

c. Quota Sampling

d. Snowball Sampling

Question 44 As the number of observations increases, the t-distribution looks more like the standard normal
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Question 45 What type of data do you need for a chi-square test?

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a. Nominal

b. Ratio

c. Ordinal

d. Interval

Question 46 Why, in some cases, is a measure of association needed in addition to a p-value for a statistical test?
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a. The p-value only specifies the reliability of the effect.

b. The p-value only specifies the size of the effect.

c. A measure of association reduces the probability of a Type II error.

d. There is no good reason to want a measure of association once you have a significant result.

Question 47 What is the null hypothesis in chi-square test?

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a. The rows and columns are associated

b. The rows and columns are not the same

c. The rows and columns are not associated

d. The rows and columns are the same

Question 48 It compares the means of two (and only two) groups when the variances are not equal.
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a. Chi-Square

b. T-Test

c. ANOVA

d Correlation Analysis
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Question 49 It is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample (a population or a
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a. Median

b. Mean

c. Range

d. Mode

Question 50 If p-value is less than the level of significance, what would be the decision?
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a. Accept the null hypothesis, reject the alternative hypothesis

b. Reject the null hypothesis, reject the alternative hypothesis

c. Reject the null hypothesis, accept the alternative hypothesis

d. Accept the null hypothesis, accept the alternative hypothesis

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