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joesmith1212

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If one is interested in measuring the variability in a complete population, one is using a(n) __________ measure. If one is interested in measuring the variability of a sample to generalize to an unknown population, one is using a(n) __________ measure.
 
  a. standardized; inferential
  b. descriptive; standardized
  c. inferential; descriptive
  d. descriptive; inferential

Question 2

Which popular measure of spread is calculated by taking the square root of the variance?
 
  a. the average deviation
  b. the mean square
  c. the standard deviation
  d. the standard score


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lcapri7

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c


joesmith1212

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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