Author Question: At a basic level, when deciding whether a sample is representative of a particular population, we ... (Read 166 times)

james · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

At a basic level, when deciding whether a sample is representative of a particular population, we

a. make the decision based on intuition.
b. are also deciding whether the population is the one we should be testing.
c. decide against low-probability events in favor of high-probability events.
d. go for the long shot and decide against high-probability events.

Question 2

What can you conclude about a sample mean that falls within the region of rejection?

a. The sample probably represents some population other than the one on which the sampling distribution was based.
b. The sample represents the population on which the sampling distribution was based.
c. Another sample needs to be collected.
d. The sample should have come from the given population.