Simon Arnett, Director of Human Resour...

单项选择题Simon Arnett, Director of Human Resources, is exploring the causes of employee absenteeism at Buderim Bottling during the last operating year (1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005). Personnel records of 50 employees are selected for analysis. (The plant employs 250.) For this study, the average number days absent for these 50 employees is a （）.

A.population
B.sample
C.parameter
D.statistic

点击查看答案

您可能感兴趣的试卷

你可能感兴趣的试题

1.单项选择题A summary measure that is computed from a sample to describe a characteristic of the population is called（）

A.a parameter
B.a statistic
C.a population
D.Both A and C are correct，since they are the same

点击查看答案

2.单项选择题Simon Arnett, Director of Human Resources, is exploring the causes of employee absenteeism at Buderim Bottling during the last operating year (1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005). The average number of absences per employee, calculated from the personnel data of all employees, is a （）.

A.population
B.sample
C.parameter
D.statistic

点击查看答案

3.单项选择题A politician who is running for the office of premier in a state with 3 million registered voters commissions a survey. In the survey, 53.6% of the 5000 registered voters interviewed say they plan to vote for him. The population of interest is the（）

A.3 million registered voters in the state.
B.5000 registered voters interviewed.
C.53.6%of，or 2680，voters interviewed who plan to vote for him
D.46.4%of，or 2320，voters interviewed who plan not to vote for him

点击查看答案

4.单项选择题Claudia Taylor, Director of Global Industrial Sales in Melbourne, is concerned by a deteriorating sales trend. Specifically, the number of customers is stable at 1500 but they are purchasing less each year. She orders her staff to search for causes of the downward trend by selecting a focus group of 40 industrial customers. For this study, the set of 40 industrial customers is a （）.

A.statistic
B.sample
C.population
D.parameter

点击查看答案

5.单项选择题Michael Bayley, Marketing Director of UniPower’s Electrical Division, is leading a study to identify and assess the relative importance of product features. Michael directs his staff to design a survey questionnaire for distribution to all of UniPower’s 954 customers. For this study, the set of 954 customers is a （）.

A.statistic
B.population
C.parameter
D.sample

点击查看答案

6.单项选择题Penny Bauer, Chief Financial Officer of Harrison Haulage, suspects irregularities in the payroll system, and orders an inspection of ‘each and every payroll voucher issued since 1 January 2005’. Five per cent of the payroll vouchers contained material errors. This is an example of （）.

A.nonparametric statistics
B.nominal data
C.descriptive statistics
D.inferential statistics

点击查看答案

7.判断题Statistical independence means the outcome of one event is independent of the outcome of a second event.

参考答案：对

8.判断题If the population distribution is unknown, in most cases the sampling distribution of the mean can be approximated by the normal distribution if the sample size is at least 15 observations.

参考答案：错

9.判断题When analyzing categorical data, stem and leaf display is an appropriate plot.

参考答案：错

10.单项选择题X is a discrete random variable that can have values from 0 to infinity, and occurrences of the events X counts are independent. The standard deviation of X is equal to the square root of the mean. The probability distribution of X is a(n) （）distribution.

A.binomial
B.uniform
C.normal
D.Possion

点击查看答案