Social Statistics for a Diverse Society 9th Edition Frankfort-Nachmias Test Bank
Test Bank for Social Statistics for a Diverse Society 9th Edition By Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Anna Leon-Guerrero, Georgiann Davis, ISBN: 9781544339733
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 The What and the Why of Statistics
CHAPTER 2 The Organization and Graphic Presentation of Data
CHAPTER 3 Measures of Central Tendency
CHAPTER 4 Measures of Variability
CHAPTER 5 The Normal Distribution
CHAPTER 6 Sampling and Sampling Distributions
CHAPTER 7 Estimation
CHAPTER 8 Testing Hypotheses
CHAPTER 9 Bivariate Tables
CHAPTER 10 The Chi-Square Test and Measures of Association
CHAPTER 11 Analysis of Variance
CHAPTER 12 Regression and Correlation
Chapter 1: The What and the Why of Statistics
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. An organized and elaborate conceptual scheme that serves to explain how social attributes and events are patterned or related is called a ______.
A. law
B. theory
C. hypothesis
D. variable
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the five stages of the research process.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Role of Theory
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Procedures that help organize or describe data collected from a sample or a population are called ______.
A. descriptive statistics
B. analytical variables
C. inferential statistics
D. dependent variables
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-4: Apply descriptive and inferential statistical procedures.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The levels of social life on which social scientists focus are called ______.
A. measures of tendency
B. dependent variables
C. independent variables
D. units of analysis
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the five stages of the research process.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Formulating the Hypotheses
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Researchers use the term ______ to refer to information that is obtained and verified by direct experience.
A. variable
B. unit of analysis
C. empirical research
D. theory
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the five stages of the research process.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Asking Research Questions
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. A(n) ______ is a tentative prediction about how empirical events or attributes will be related or patterned.
A. theory
B. estimate
C. law
D. hypothesis
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the five stages of the research process.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Formulating the Hypotheses
Difficulty Level: Easy
