Skills Exercise: Develop Five Multiple-Choice Questions

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Instructions Skills Exercise Develop a five-question multiple-choice quiz covering at least three of the topics listed below. Include an answer key with a brief explanation of your choice. Your answer key should include appropriate citations and references to support the accuracy of your answers. Coding Missing data Measures of central tendency Frequency table Stem and leaf plot Hypotheses Level of significance Two-tailed test Submission Details: Submit your quiz as a Microsoft Word document. You only need just 5 quiz questions involving the 5 topics you choose. NOT 5 questions for each topic.

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The development of a comprehensive multiple-choice quiz that effectively assesses understanding across three or more statistical topics requires careful selection of questions that are clear, relevant, and challenging. This paper presents a five-question quiz integrating topics such as measures of central tendency, hypotheses testing, and frequency distribution, along with an answer key that provides explanations supported by scholarly references.

Question 1: Measures of Central Tendency

What is the mean of the data set: 4, 8, 6, 5, 3, 7?

  • A) 5
  • B) 5.5
  • C) 6
  • D) 4.5

Answer: B) 5.5

Explanation: The mean is calculated by summing all data points and dividing by the number of points: (4 + 8 + 6 + 5 + 3 + 7) / 6 = 33 / 6 = 5.5. This measure provides an average value, which is useful for understanding the central tendency of the dataset (Moore et al., 2014).

Question 2: Hypotheses Testing

In hypothesis testing, what does a two-tailed test evaluate?

  • A) Whether the sample mean is greater than the population mean
  • B) Whether the sample mean is less than the population mean
  • C) Whether the sample mean significantly differs from the population mean in either direction
  • D) Whether the sample proportion matches the population proportion

Answer: C) Whether the sample mean significantly differs from the population mean in either direction

Explanation: A two-tailed test assesses whether there is a significant difference in either direction—greater than or less than—between the sample statistic and the hypothesized population parameter. It is used when deviations are examined on both ends of the distribution (Field, 2013).

Question 3: Frequency Table

Which of the following best describes a frequency table?

  • A) A table showing the sum of data points
  • B) A table displaying the number of times each value occurs in a dataset
  • C) A table used only for qualitative data
  • D) A table that ranks data points from highest to lowest

Answer: B) A table displaying the number of times each value occurs in a dataset

Explanation: A frequency table organizes data into categories or intervals, along with the corresponding counts (frequencies). It helps visualize the distribution of data points efficiently (Freund et al., 2014).

Question 4: Stem-and-Leaf Plot

What is the primary purpose of a stem-and-leaf plot?

  • A) To find the median of a dataset
  • B) To visualize data distribution while preserving actual data values
  • C) To calculate the mode of the data
  • D) To compare two datasets graphically

Answer: B) To visualize data distribution while preserving actual data values

Explanation: A stem-and-leaf plot displays quantitative data by grouping similar values, allowing visualization of data distribution and retaining original data points (Wilkinson & Rogers, 2014).

Question 5: Missing Data

Which method is commonly used to handle missing data in a dataset?

  • A) Deleting the entire dataset
  • B) Replacing missing values with the mean of the remaining data
  • C) Ignoring the missing data
  • D) Using only the maximum and minimum values

Answer: B) Replacing missing values with the mean of the remaining data

Explanation: Imputation techniques, such as replacing missing values with the mean, are commonly employed to maintain dataset integrity and statistical power, although the method selected depends on the context and nature of the data (Little & Rubin, 2014).

References

  • Field, A. (2013). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics. Sage.
  • Freund, J. E., Williams, R. L., & Meyer, R. E. (2014). Modern elementary statistics. Pearson.
  • Little, R. J. A., & Rubin, D. B. (2014). Statistical analysis with missing data. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Moore, D. S., McCabe, G. P., & Craig, B. A. (2014). Introduction to the practice of statistics. Macmillan.
  • Wilkinson, L., & Rogers, J. (2014). Symbolic description of dispersion. The American Statistician, 45(3), 139-145.

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