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- Define descriptive and inferential statistics. What is the distinction between the two (provide examples of both)?
- Numbers that are used to summarize and describe data
- Doing research on what fast food people prefer, and using percent’s and pie charts
- Statistics from a random sample of data taken from a population to describe and make inferences about the population
- Doing research in Hays and taking note of the participants careers
- Define populations and samples. What is the distinction between the two (provide examples of both)?
- Population is an entire group, the larger set
- Samples is the small subset of a larger set of data
- The sample from FHSU would be students majoring in HHP
- Define an independent and dependent variable. What is the distinction between the two (provide examples of both)?
- independent variable is when a variable is manipulated by an experimenter
- in a research where they are testing how exercise affects sleeping habits, the independent would be the amount of exercise done
- dependent is measured and represents the outcome of the research
- the dependent variable would be hours of sleep
- What is the distinction between a discrete and a continuous variable (provide examples of both)?
- Discrete is a number
- Number, of people in a hospital or hospital
- Continuous is time
- Time, time taken to answer a question
- What are the different levels of measurement? Provide examples of the different levels.
- Nominal, like gender
- Ordinal, being satisfied, very satisfied, or not satisfied
- Interval, like Fahrenheit
- Ratio, like temperature measurements in Kelvin
- What is DSRP?
- Distinctions
- Systems
- Relationships
- Perspectives
- Method of teaching, learning and thinking made by systems theorists and cognitive scientists
- How is “Test” defined?
- Any instrument used for measuring
- How is “Measurement” defined?
- Length or size of something
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