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A researcher is curious about the average monthly cell phone bill for high school students in the state of Florida.  If this average could be obtained, it would be an example of a ____.

The classrooms in the Psychology department are numbered from 100 to 108.  A professor records the number of classes held in each room during the fall semester.  If these values are presented in a frequency distribution graph, what kind of graph would be appropriate?

The data from an independent-measures research study produce a sample mean difference of 6 points and an estimated standard error of 2 points.  If there are n = 8 scores in each sample, then the value for the t statistic is ____.

A researcher reports t(22) = 5.30, p < .01 for an independent-measures experiment.  How many individuals participated in the entire experiment?

A research report describing the results from a repeated-measures t test states, “t(22) = 1.71,  p > .05.”  From this report you can conclude that the outcome of the hypothesis test was ____.

Which of the following is a basic assumption for a chi-square hypothesis test?

Statistical methods that organize, summarize, or simplify data are called ____.

What is the value of SS (sum of squared deviations) for the following sample?Sample:  2, 3, 4, 7

Which of the following describes a typical distribution of F-ratios?

The following table shows the results of a between-subjects ANOVA. Based on this table, what is the value for eta squared (η2), the percentage of variance accounted for?      Source                         SS        df        MS            Between Groups   16        2          8                Within Groups       84        21        4                Total                            100      23