Question

(a) Considering the data mentioned in part (b) of question 1, is the mean height of the 14 mountains higher than 8000 m a parameter or a statistic as it relates to these 14 mountains?

           (b) Considering the data mentioned in part (c) of question 1, is the mean height of the students in MAT-114 a parameter or a statistic as it relates to the mean height of all students at Lincoln?

          (c) Are the heights of mountains or students’ examples of discrete or continuous data?

           (d) Are the number of mountains higher than 8000 m or the number of students in MAT-114 examples of continuous or discrete data? In order for samples to be representative of the populations from which they are drawn, various sampling techniques have been developed but one principle characteristic is common to all of them as a means of making them representative and avoiding bias.

         (e) What is this common principle (one word)? (pp 16, 18, 23, 24)                                                                                                                                                         5

Answer 1