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IQ of students at Western university .The entire group of students is an example of a population .
A researcher is curious about the IQ of students at Western University. The entire group of...
A researcher is interested in the travel time of Western University students to the campus. A group of 50 students is interviewed. Their mean travel time is 16.7 minutes. For this study the mean of 16.7 minutes is an example of a(n) 1) parameter 2) statistic ) population 4) sample
A researcher wants to estimate the mean IQ score for a population of high school students. How many students will she have to select for the IQ tests if she wants 95% confidence the sample mean is within 3 IQ points of the population mean? Assume the population standard deviation is 15.
A nurse researcher who is a faculty member in a university setting has been hearing students who are struggling academically describe during counseling sessions the difficulties they are experiencing in balancing school and parenting responsibilities. The researcher believes that the descriptions of the difficulties students relate appear to be different depending on their gender. This leads the researcher to question if there is a difference between students who are mothers and students who are fathers in how they balance school...
A researcher was asked to estimate mean GPA of all students at Pace University in 2016. He has selected at random 30 students and calculated their mean GPA. It was found to be equal to 3.2. The sample size e) f) Number of classes the researcher can use to summarize his findings (hint: use 2>n) g) Can the researcher apply central limit theorem? (yes /no) Explain h) What is the shape of this sampling distribution? (normal / approximately normal) (hint:...
10. A university is concerned about the proportion of students that graduate. To address the issue, it does the following. First, it gets a random sample of incoming students. Some of the students in this random sample will be required to have extra meetings with a series of advisors and some will not. It randomly decides which of the students will have this requirement and which will not. In the data, 464 of the 764 students that had this requirement...
A group of 85 students in first-year biology at Western University just wrote their second midterm. Because the first year tests involve a group component in which students learn the correct answers to the midterm questions at the end of the exam, they each know what they scored on the test. Based on their individual results, they computed a mean midterm mark of 19 (it was a test marked out of 25), with standard deviation of 4.3 marks. They considered...
1. A university researcher is interested in whether efforts to recruit more top high school students have been successful. To test this, she randomly selects 50 freshmen from the university and records their high school GPA. The mean is 2.75 with a standard deviation of 0.50. The researcher also knows that the mean high school GPA of all freshmen enrolled at the university five years ago was 3.00 with a standard deviation of 0.66. The researcher wants to know if...
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PROBLEMS *1. A researcher is interested in the texting habits of high school students in the United States. The researcher selects a group of 100 students, measures the number of text messages that each individual sends each day, and calculates the average number for the group. a. Identify the population for this study. b. Identify the sample for this study. c. The average number that the researcher calculated is an example of a - 2. Define...
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A researcher wants to know how undergraduate college students at her university feel about a list of 1196 undergraduate college students at her university, selects 500 of them at random, and emails a questionnaire to them 107 questionnaires are returned. Of these, 71% stated that they believe that the federal student loan program needs to be completely overhauled. Classify the following groups as the population or the sample for this particular study. If...
1. What is degrees of freedom? 2. A researcher wants to know if students who take foreign language classes have higher IQs than the general population. The average population IQ is 100. The IQ scores for 5 students in a foreign language class are as follows 120, 98, 116, 100, 100. Compute t.