Answer the following questions as briefly but clearly as you can.

Allot around 75 minutes for this and time

yourselves carefully. Then compare your answers with mine (to be emailed before actual quiz 1 ). Dont
look at my answers if you dont have your own yet.
This set of questions resembles that from your quiz 1 and serves as a reviewer.
1.

Why is statistics both a science and an art?

2. What is the best situation where cluster

sampling may be used?

3. Why is simple random sampling not

recommended for a study that is extremely wide
in scope (for instance, national level)?
4. For a certain study, computers at a
university are grouped by building. From each
building, some computers are selected. Cite one
possible variable of interest to the researcher of
this study. Explain.

10. The survey question What is your most

favorite primary color has values blue, yellow
and red encoded as 1,2 and 3, respectively.
Responses to the question are as follows: 3 3 2
2 1 1 1 3 2 1 1 2. Analyze and interpret these
values.
11. The survey question How many cellphones
do you own yielded the responses 3 3 2 2 1 1 1
3 2 1 1 2. Analyze and interpret these values.
12. Refer to the previous item. Between mean
and median, which one would be a better
measure of center? Why?
13. What is the mode hair color in INTSTA1
N01, Term 2, 2015-2016?

5. Consider the survey question, Which of the

following do you usually like doing and
recommend that your friends do? ___ Read
books ___ Play video games ____ Use tablet
___ Watch TV ___ Others (pls specify)
_______ Cite three errors in this question.
6. What are the similarities and differences
between a survey and an experiment?

7. Can the variable IQ be reduced into a lower

level of measurement? Why or why not? If so,
how?
8. What is/are the level/s of measurement of
the variable Birthday? Explain.

9. How is a not applicable response usually

encoded?

14. Cite one major major advantage of

coefficient of variation over standard deviation?
15. What can you say about the skewness of a
set of sample values whose mean and median
are
both
194809472890743908769834769087409734.90
68934085903485908349058903409540?
16. Which column/s of the FDT seem/s least
important? Why?
17. Refer to the FDT in the lecture powerpoint.
Assuming the first class is 1 to 8, what would
be the percent frequency in the fourth class?
What would be the cumulative relative frequency
in the third class?
18. Which graph best suits a study which aims
to assess monthly unemployment rate within a
year? Why?

19. What other graph does the stem-and-leaf

display resemble?

20. What is the biggest statistical mistake you

have made in your life and what did you do to
make it right?
21. Should statistical literacy be a prerequisite to
being Miss Universe?