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This document provides practice questions about introductory statistics concepts including: defining representative sample, random sample, sampling with and without replacement; describing the difference between a census and sample survey; explaining quantitative/qualitative variables and discrete/continuous variables; distinguishing between cross-section and time-series data; classifying examples as populations or samples; identifying quantitative/qualitative variables; classifying quantitative variables as discrete or continuous; and distinguishing between sampling with and without replacement.

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This document provides practice questions about introductory statistics concepts including: defining representative sample, random sample, sampling with and without replacement; describing the difference between a census and sample survey; explaining quantitative/qualitative variables and discrete/continuous variables; distinguishing between cross-section and time-series data; classifying examples as populations or samples; identifying quantitative/qualitative variables; classifying quantitative variables as discrete or continuous; and distinguishing between sampling with and without replacement.

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UWI Five Island Campus

ECON1005 Introductory Statistics

Practice Questions 1

Concepts and procedures

1. Briefly explain the terms: representative sample, random sample, sampling with replacement,
sampling without replacement

2. Briefly describe the difference between a census and a sample survey. Why is conducting a
sample survey preferable to conducting a census.

3. Explain the meaning of the following terms.


 Quantitative variable
 Qualitative variable
 Discrete variable
 Continuous variable
 Quantitative data
 Qualitative data

4. Explain the difference between cross-section and time-series data. Give an example of each of
these two types of data.

Applications

5. Explain whether each of the following constitutes a population or a sample.


 Number of personal fouls committed by all NBA players during the 2018-2019 season.
 Yield of potatoes per acre for 10 pieces of land,
 Weekly salaries of all employees at APUA
 Cattle owned by 50 farmers in Antigua & Barbuda.
 Number of computers sold during the past week at all computer outlets in Antigua and
Barbuda.

6. Indicate which of the following variables are quantitative and which are qualitative.
 Number of typographical errors in the Observer newspaper.
 The color of M&M candies
 Spring break locations favored by college students.
 Number of cars owned by families.
 Time to commute from home to work.

7. Classify the quantitative variables in #6 as discrete or continuous.

8. Classify the following as cross-section or time-series data.

 Average prices of houses in 100 cities


 Salaries of 50 employees
 Number of cars sold each year by Harney Motors from 2000-2015
 Number of employees employed by the Ministry of Education each year from 2015-2020

9. State which of the following is an example of sampling with replacement and which is an
example of sampling without replacement.
 Selecting 10 patients out of 100 to test a new drug.
 Selecting one teacher to be a member of the education committee and then selecting
one teacher from the same group to be a member of the student welfare committee.

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