As the mean increases in a normal distribution, what happens to the graph of the normal curve?
3. Describing Data Numerically
Standard Deviation
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Which formula should you use to calculate the variance and which formula should you use to calculate the standard deviation of a sample of observations , , ..., ?
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Which of the following is true about ?
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Which of the following best describes the relationship between and for a data set?
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Which three quantities are required to calculate the variance of a data set?
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Which of the following is the correct formula for the population variance?
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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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If an observation has a z-score of , which of the following is true?
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In a normal distribution, which of the following statements is true regarding the and the ?
34views - Multiple ChoiceWhich data set is the most spread out from its mean (i.e., has the largest standard deviation)?2views
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Given the sample data set: , what is the standard deviation of this sample?
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If the standard deviation for a sample is , what is the variance of the sample?
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A sample of scores has a mean of and a sample variance of . What is the sample standard deviation?
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