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Medesa

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on: Jul 25, 2018
A statistic is said to be biased if it
 
  A) Leads to an erroneous conclusion about the sample
  B) Systematically underestimates or overestimates a parameter
  C) Has exactly the same value as the parameter
  D) Is determined from a trimmed sample

Question 2

An online newspaper conducted a survey by asking, Do you support the lowering of air quality standards if it could cause the death of millions of innocent people from pollution related diseases? Determine the type of bias.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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braelync

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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

Response bias; poorly worded question


Medesa

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Reply 2 on: Jul 25, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

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