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ASSESSMENT #1 STATS - Basic Statistical Concepts and Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability
ASSESSMENT #1 STATS - Basic Statistical Concepts and Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability
ASSESSMENT #1 STATS - Basic Statistical Concepts and Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability
Question 1
Which of the following refers to the science of conducting studies to collect, organize, summarize, analyze and
draw conclusions from data?
A. Statistics
B. Trigonometry
C. Algebra
D. Logic
Question 2
Which type of statistics consists of the collection, summary, and presentation of data?
A. Inferential Statistics
B. Descriptive Statistics
C. Parameter
D. Estimation
Question 3
Of the different levels of measurement, what is the classification of GENDER?
A. Categorical
B. Ordinal
C. Interval
D. Ratio
Question 4
Which of the following representations is best to show the data on students’ preferred school organization?
A. Bar Graph
B. Line Graph
C. Pie Graph
D. Pictograph
Question 5
Which measure of central tendency refers to the most frequently occurring in the distribution?
A. Mean
B. Median.
C. Mode
D. Variance
Question 6
When the data has extreme scores, what is the best measure to use to describe a given set of data?
A. Mean
B. Median
C. Mode
D. Variance
Question 7
Which CANNOT be classified as Quantitative data?
A. The number of bicycles sold in one year
B. The weight of fish caught in a lake
C. The classification of children as infant, toddler, preschool
D. The age of your classmates.
Question 8
You are conducting a survey of the people of the Philippines to find out how popular basketball is. You
randomly choose people to call and make 1,000 phone calls to
people living in the country.
In this study, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Both the people of the Philippines and the people you called are SAMPLES.
B. Both the people of the Philippines and the people you called are POPULATIONS.
C. The people of the Philippines are the POPULATION, and the people you called are the SAMPLE.
D. The people of the Philippines are the SAMPLE, and the people you called are the POPULATION.
Question 9
Which of the following is the appropriate visualization tool to use to show the trend over a period of time?
A. Bar Graph
B. Line Graph
C. Pie Graph
D. Pictograph
Question 10
Which of the following is the appropriate data presentation to show a simple way of understanding the
figures/statistics?
A. Textual
B. Tabular
C. Graphical
D. Raw Data