Immediate Statistics Quiz

Final Exam Topic Review

The following is a list of items that are going to be on the exam. All questions and topics follow what was done for your weekly assignments & discussions.

For the exam, students should be able to:

1. distinguish between independent and dependent variables.
2. distinguish between discrete and continuous variables
3. distinguish between qualitative and quantitative variables
4. Explain bias in statistics and ways it can be prevented
5. Draw inferences from statistics presented.
6. Calculate mean, median, and mode from a given data set
7. Discuss the use of mean and median based on the shape of the data (skewed vs. symmetrical)
8. Calculate the range, sample standard deviation, sample variance
9. Calculate Quartiles and IQR of a data set
10. Create a boxplot of a given data set
11. Find the 5-number summary of a given data set
12. Use the IQR method formulas to find the outliers of a data set
13. Create a histogram of a data set
14. Create a bar graph of a qualitative data set
15. Use the empirical rule to answer questions about the percentage of data that would fall within certain standard deviations of the mean.