Access over 35 million academic & study documents

Statistics

Content type
User Generated
Subject
Statistics
School
Cornell University
Type
Homework
Showing Page:
1/3
Statistics
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Date
Statistics
The unsettling aspect of statistics is that bias may be introduced when the sampling method is not
representative of the population.
Questions that I would ask
Is the sample size of five selected at random?
Is the population size twenty times that of the sample size of five?
Is the dentist population split into two groups, one for dentists who suggest a specific
procedure and another for dentists who do not advocate that procedure?

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
2/3
We choose the statistic that 'four out of five dentists suggest Oral-B toothpaste.'
We would want to pose the following question to statisticians about their work:
'How large a sample size did you utilize for your survey?'
'How did you choose the respondents?'
'Does your research include any bias?'
'How did you choose a sample?'
If the researcher performed a poll in a particular region, it is possible that dentists would suggest
whatever toothpaste they liked; this may produce a bias, since the sample is not typical of the
whole community. This bias is inconvenient in light of the preceding data.
The population proportion test makes the following assumptions.
The sample is drawn using a basic random sampling technique.
The population is twenty times the size of the sample.
The population is classified into two groups.
The following are the questions regarding the assumptions made:
Is the sample size determined randomly?
Is the population 20 times the size of the sample?
Is the dentist population split into two groups, one for dentists who suggest a specific
procedure and another for dentists who do not advocate that procedure?

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
3/3

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Unformatted Attachment Preview
Statistics Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Date Statistics The unsettling aspect of statistics is that bias may be introduced when the sampling method is not representative of the population. Questions that I would ask • Is the sample size of five selected at random? • Is the population size twenty times that of the sample size of five? • Is the dentist population split into two groups, one for dentists who suggest a specific procedure and another for dentists who do not advocate that procedure? We choose the statistic that 'four out of five dentists suggest Oral-B toothpaste.' We would want to pose the following question to statisticians about their work: • 'How large a sample size did you utilize for your survey?' • 'How did you choose the respondents?' • 'Does your research include any bias?' • 'How did you choose a sample?' If the researcher ...
Purchase document to see full attachment
User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.
Studypool
4.7
Indeed
4.5
Sitejabber
4.4