Chapter 10 Quiz

A parameter describes a feature of a population.

In which approach to missing data do you leave out the participants who had not provided their marks out of only the analyses examining the missing value?

The value (or values) that appears the most often within a dataset is known as the __________.

The mean can be used to describe ordinal data.

In most measures of the fit of the data to a model, higher values indicate less fit.

Subtracting the mean of the dataset from each data point, then adding the values together, results in which value?

What is the most common measure of fit reported alongside means in social science research?

What is the median value of 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 11, 11, and 13?

What kind of data visualisation displays the relationship between two continuous variables on its x- and y-axes?

Which type of data visualisation cannot be used to describe nominal data?