If the standard deviation for a set of data is , what does this indicate about the data values?
3. Describing Data Numerically
Standard Deviation
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Which characteristic of data is a measure of the amount that the data values vary?
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In a normal distribution, approximately what percentage of data falls below a value that is below the mean ?
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If a set of data has a standard deviation of , which of the following must be true about the data?
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Which of the following is not a property of the ?
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Standard deviation is a measure of which one of the following?
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If a sample has a standard deviation of , what does this indicate about the data values in the sample?
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Which of the following best explains why the is less desirable than the as a measure of dispersion?
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As the standard deviation decreases, what happens to the graph of the normal distribution curve?
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Given the mean of a normal distribution, which of the following best describes the ?
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Which of the following best describes the effect of outliers on the of a data set?
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Given the following two samples: Sample 1: and Sample 2: , what is the value of the pooled standard deviation for these data sets?
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The standard deviation is used in conjunction with the to describe which aspect of a data set?
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Which of the following is not a property of the distribution?
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Given four samples, each with the same sample mean but different sample sizes and standard deviations, which of the following samples will have the smallest value for the estimated standard error of the mean ()?
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