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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Ordinal data
B Ranked scores
C The chi-square value
D All of the above
Question #2
A 0.92
B 0.63
C 0.14
D 0.86
Question #3
A Neither
B Its sign (+ or – )
C its size
D Both
Question #4
A X is NOT a good predictor of Y
B low scores on X are associated with low scores on Y
C X is a good predictor of Y
D High scores on X are associated with high scores on Y
Question #5
A for nominal data
B for tables that are 2 x 2
C when random sampling has been used
D all of the above
Question #6
A interval level data
B nominal level data
C both nominal and interval
D ordinal level data
Question #7
A the amount of change in X for each unit change in Y
B the points where the regression line crosses the X axis when Y = 0
C the amount of change in Y for each unit change in X
D the point where the regression line crosses the Y axis when X = 0
Question #8
A its size
B its sign (+ or -)
C neither its sign (+ or -) or size
D both its size and sign (+ or -)
Question #9
A Pearson’s r
B Cramer’s V
C contingency coefficient
D Spearman’s rank order correlation coefficient
Question #10
A Phi coefficient
B Spearman’s r
C Contingency Coefficient
D Pearson’s r
Question #11
A Spearman’s r
B Goodman’s and Kruskal’s Gamma
C Pearson’s r
D Cramer’s V
Question #12
A the table is 2 x 2
B the given table does not have the same number of row and columns
C there is a large sample
D the table has the same number of rows and columns
Question #13
A the independent variable must be categorical in nature
B the independent variable is influenced by the dependent variable
C one variable is believed to be influenced by the other
D the variables being investigated must be correlated
Question #14
A the proportion of variance in X that is attributed to error
B the proportion of variance in Y that is NOT explained by X
C the proportion of the variance in Y that is explained by X
D the proporion of variance in Y that is attributed to error
Question #15
A the worse the obtained data fit the regression line
B the ore the independent variable predicts the independent variable
C the less variance has been accounted for by the independent variable
D the better the obtained data fit the regression line (AKA line of best fit)
Question #16
A the amount of change in Y for each unit change in X
B the point where the regresssion line corsses the X-axis when Y=0
C the amount of change in X for each change in Y
D the point where the regression line crosses the Y-axis when X=0
Question #17
A curvilienear relationship
B a negative relationship
C not enough information to answer question
D a positive relationship
Question #18
A varies from -1.0 to +1.0
B presents the direction of the relationship
C presents the strength of the relationship
D all of the above
Question #19
A -0.31
B -0.28
C (+0.58)
D (+0.12)
Question #20
A correlations provide statements of causation
B correlations can be negative
C correlations can never exceed 1.0
D correlations closer to 0.0 are considered to be weak, while correlations closer to 1.0 are considered to be strong.
Question #21
A there is not enough information to estimate the nature of the correlation
B positive
C inverse
D negative