STA 2023 Statistical Methods
Note-Taking Assignment Week 2
Danielle Theriault
NAME____________________________________
Directions: Write out the population related to the information given below. Then
write out the sample related to the information below.
1. The most recent university polling of 2,255 likely voters over 35 years old indicated
that only 32% supported Joe Biden’s recent decision to forgive student loans in the
amount of $10,000 for a single person who makes less than $125,000 and student
loans in the amount of $20,000 for married couples who make less than $250,000.
The margin of error was 3.2%.
SAMPLE: university polling of 2,255 voters
POPULATION: university polling of all voters
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2. Use complete sentences to define a statistic and a parameter. Then explain why a
statistic is connected to a sample while a parameter is connected to a population.
statistic is a numerical description of a sample. A parameter is a numerical description of characteristic
of a population. a statistic is connected to a sample because they are describing a portion of a population
whereas a parameter and a population are connected because they are used to describe data as a whole
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Determine whether the numbers describe a statistic or a parameter.
WRITE OUT THE WORDS STATISTIC OR PARAMETER.
statistic
______________3. Of the business students enrolled at Rollins College, 72% of them
are full-time evening class students.
parameter
______________4. The average number of years of employment for all of the full-time
professors at Valencia College is 22 years.
statistic
______________5. In a recent poll of Florida parents of K-6 students, 87% of them
supported that their students focus their learning only on Science,
Mathematics, Language Arts, History, Physical Education, and
Economic Competency.
statistic
______________6. In a survey of 850 high school students, 60% of them said they
are definitely going to college after graduation.
7. A national randomly generated telephone survey of 1938 parents with children
under the age of 11 years showed that over half of these children under have
access to a smartphone, iPad or some other mobile media device. Ten percent use
these devices daily for an average of 43 minutes. As you might guess, there are
some income disparities here. With all the new technologies, however, TV is still
king. Seventy-four percent of the media consumption of kids under 1 still consists
of the big screen, not the little one. Identify the sample and the population.
SAMPLE: half of the children under the age of 11 have access to a smartphone
POPULATION: all children under the age of 11 have access to a smartphone
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**Identify each set of data by its level of measurements (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)
WRITE OUT THE FULL NAME FOR EACH MEASUREMENT.
ratio
_______________8. the measure of the Ridgecrest earthquake in southern
California in July 2019 was a considerable 7.1 on the Richter
Scale.
nominal
_______________9. ratings of plumbers on Angie’s list were “recommended”,
“acceptable”, and “not acceptable”.
interval
_______________10. the temperature in the bar area at the Ale House in Winter
Garden felt like 80 degrees
nominal
_______________11. Sports Illustrated suggested that the likely final standings
for the four teams in the NFC EAST in 2022 would be the
Dallas Cowboys, Washington, New York Giants, and the
Philadelphia Eagles.
nominal
_______________11. the name of the street on which I live is Orange Ridge Road
interval
_______________12. the force required to break a water filled balloon
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13. Use complete sentence to describe how interval and ratio data are similar. Than use
complete sentences to describe how interval and ratio data are dissimilar.
interval and ratio are similar because they both used to measure changes in numbers over time.
interval and ratio are dissimilar because ratio starts at zero and increase whereas interval can increase or
decrease, it can even go below zero
