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Measures of Variability Exercises

The document is a homework assignment focused on measures of variability in statistics, including questions on range, interquartile range, deviation scores, standard deviation, and variance. It contains multiple-choice questions as well as short answer problems requiring calculations of sums of squares, variance, and standard deviation for given sets of scores. Additionally, it addresses the concept of biased sample variability and its correction in variance calculations.

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Measures of Variability Exercises

The document is a homework assignment focused on measures of variability in statistics, including questions on range, interquartile range, deviation scores, standard deviation, and variance. It contains multiple-choice questions as well as short answer problems requiring calculations of sums of squares, variance, and standard deviation for given sets of scores. Additionally, it addresses the concept of biased sample variability and its correction in variance calculations.

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Measures of Variability Homework Dr.

McQuiston

____ 1. In a population of N = 10 scores, the smallest score is X = 8 and the largest score is X = 20. The
range for the population is __________.
a. 11
b. 12
c. 13
d. cannot be determined without more information
____ 2. The value for the interquartile range is determined by __________.
a. the extreme scores (both high and low) in the distribution
b. the extremely high scores in the distribution
c. the middle scores in the distribution
d. all of the scores in the distribution
____ 3. Which of the following deviation scores corresponds to the score that is farthest away from the
mean?
a. 0
b. 5
c. -5
d. -10
____ 4. In a population with a mean of = 50, a score of X = 45 would have a deviation score of
__________.
a. 5
b. -5
c. 45
d. cannot be determined without more information
____ 5. Which of the following symbols identifies the population standard deviation?
a. s
b. s2
c.
d. 2
____ 6. A sample of n = 5 scores has M = 20 and s2 = 4. What is the sample standard deviation?
a. 2
b. 5
c. 16
d. the square root of 20
____ 7. A population of N = 5 scores has SS = 40. What is the variance for this population?
a. 40/5 = 8
b. 40/4 = 10
c. 5(40) = 200
d. 4(40) = 160
____ 8. In general, what is the relationship between the standard deviation and variance?
a. Standard deviation equals the squared variance.
b. Variance is the square root of standard deviation.
c. Standard deviation is the square root of variance.
d. These two measures are unrelated.
____ 9. The variability of the scores in a sample tends to be __________ the variability of the scores in the
population from which the sample was obtained.
a. smaller than
b. larger than
c. exactly the same as
d. unrelated to
____ 10. If a population has a mean of = 24 with a standard deviation of = 4 and N = 10, then (X )
has a value of __________.
a. 0
b. 16
c. 2.5
d. 400
____ 11. Which set of scores has the least amount of variability?
a. 11, 17, 31, 53
b. 5, 11, 42, 22
c. 145, 143, 145, 147
d. 27, 105, 10, 80

Short Answer

12. Compute SS (use the definitional formula), variance and the standard deviation for the following
population of scores. Scores: 9, 1, 8, 6

13. For the following sample, use the computational formula to calculate SS. Then, compute the
sample variance and standard deviation. Scores: 1, 7, 1, 1
14. Calculate the variance and the standard deviation for the following sample data (using whatever SS
formulas you want).
Scores: 2, 3, 2, 4, 7, 5, 3, 6, 4

15. Without some correction, sample variability is said to be "biased." Define the term biased, and
explain how this bias is corrected in the formula for sample variance.

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