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Thursday, January 28, 2016

TAKE HOME QUIZ!

Tonight, please complete the "Pop Quiz: Sample Surveys" provided in class (or below). This will be collected and graded as a take home quiz!

  • We will not have a quiz to start class tomorrow....this is the quiz you would have taken...you have it as a take home to save us some class time...

Here are the answers to last night's homework so you can check and use these to help with your take home quiz!



Here is the take home quiz in case you lost yours or were out:


Pop Quiz: Sample Surveys
1.       Employees of Fenway Park plans to survey people who have been to the park and ask, “How would you rate your experience at Fenway Park (using a scale of 1-10 as a quantitative measure)?” During one baseball game, the employees randomly select 1,000 seat numbers and survey these 1,000 people at the park.
Identify each of the following. (each @ 2 points)
a.)    Sample:
b.)    Sampling Frame:
c.)     Population:
d.)    Population Parameter of Interest:
e.)    Sampling Method:
2.       For each scenario below identify the population parameter of interest. Within your answer define the context in detail, and clearly identify what the population is. (each @ 2 points)
a.       A meteorologist plans to take a random sample of 30 towns in CT and record the amount of rainfall over the past year.
b.      An psychologist takes a random sample of 5,000 students from colleges/universities across the country and asks, “Do you remember the dream you had last night?” 







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