stats 215 finalThe set of measurements collected for a particular element is called a/an

Fifteen percent of the students in a school of Business Administration are majoring in Economics, 20% in Finance, 35% in Management, and 30% in Accounting. The graphical device(s) which can be used to present these data is (are)

both a pie chart and a bar graph

Arithmetic operations are inappropriate for

categorical data

In a post office, the mailboxes are numbered from 1 to 4,500. These numbers represent

categorical data

All the data collected in a particular study are referred to as the

data set

The relative frequency of a class is computed by

dividing the frequency of the class by the total number of elements

The sample size

is always smaller than the population size

Cost of a theater ticket is an example of

quantitative data

In a cumulative frequency distribution, the last class will always have a cumulative frequency equal to

the total number of elements in the data set.

Data collected over several time periods are _____ data.

time series

A histogram is

a graphical presentation of a frequency or relative frequency distribution.

In experimental studies, the variable of interest

is controlled

In observational studies, the variable of interest

is not controlled

Categorical data

may be either numeric or nonnumeric.

A frequency distribution is a tabular summary of data showing the _____ of items in several classes.

number

The number of observations will always be the same as the

number of elements

The set of measurements collected for a particular element is called a/an

observation