Agricultural Statistics And Economics Quiz 7 (20 MCQs)

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1. Does the interval (3, 14) support the claim that the mean of a data set is 2.9
2. A community college announces that the correlation between college entrance exam grades andscholastic achievement was found to be-1.08. On the basis of this you would tell the college that
3. It is the number of time an observation or a particular value appears in a data set.
4. A random sample of 85 sixth-graders in a large city take a course designed to improve scores on a reading comprehension test. Based on this sample, a 90% confidence interval for the mean improvement in test scores for all sixth-graders in the city taking this course is found to be (12.6, 14.8). Which of the following are the sample mean and margin of error on which this interval is based?
5. Researchers studying acid rain measured the acidity of precipitation (response variable) in an isolated wilderness area in Colorado and the duration of rain in weeks (explanatory variable). The researchers reported that there was a strong negative linear association between "acidity" of precipitation and duration of rain in "weeks" . Determine which of the following is a possible measure of the relationship.
6. You have data on rainwater collected at 16 locations in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. One measurement is the acidity of the water, measured by pH on a scale of 0 to 14 (the pH of distilled water is 7.0). Which inference procedure would you use to estimate the average acidity of rainwater in the Adirondacks?
7. If the standard deviation of a data set is 4, what is the variance?
8. A slice of pizza from a certain restaurant has an average area of 40 square inches with a standard deviation of 5 square inches. Assuming the distribution of areas is approximately normal, what proportion of slices will be between 35 and 50 square inches
9. It has same criteria as interval scales but has an absolute zero and multiples are meaningful.
10. What does it mean when a test is statistically significant?
11. The increase of birth defects, and death toll near nuclear power plants.
12. A researcher plans to conduct a test of hypotheses at the $\alpha$ = 0.01 significance level. She designs her study to have a power of 0.90 at a particular alternative value of the parameter of interest. The probability that the researcher will commit a Type I error is
13. The point estimate for the difference of two proportions is:
14. At a particular college, 78% of all students are receiving some kind of financial aid.The school newspaper selects a random sample of 100 students and 72% of the respondents say they are receiving some sort of financial aid. Which of the following is true?
15. The symbol for the significance level is .....
16. A random sample of 150 students has a grade point average with a mean of 2.86. Assume the population standard deviation is 0.78. Construct the confidence interval for the population mean if c = 0.99.
17. Find the critical value zc necessary to form a 98% confidence interval.
18. The null hypothesis is represented by:
19. What is the rental rate for Agricultural Development Areas for growing rice?
20. Statistical enquiry means