Statistical thinking and inference

STA 111. Practice questions, not past papers.

Lessons

• Meaning, purpose and workflow
• Descriptive, deductive and inductive reasoning

Practice questions

1. Reporting the observed mean score of a class is primarily which activity?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q001; Source: T1-4

2. Using a random sample to estimate a population mean is which reasoning?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q002; Source: T1-4

3. Which quantity describes a population rather than a sample?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q003; Source: T1-4

4. Which is the most defensible first step in an investigation?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q004; Source: T1-4

5. A numerical characteristic of a population is a _____.

   Statistics study edition practice item F001; Source: T1-4

6. Reasoning from sample evidence to a population is _____ inference.

   Statistics study edition practice item F002; Source: T1-4

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