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St. Mary'S College of Tagum, Inc.: Tagum City, Davao Del Norte, Philippines

This document contains a student's assignment on basic inferential statistics. It includes questions that ask the student to classify different variables and measurements as descriptive or inferential, qualitative or quantitative, discrete or continuous, and nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio level. It also asks the student to define descriptive and inferential statistics and explain how statistics can be used in everyday life such as in education to evaluate learning and improve the teaching process.

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St. Mary'S College of Tagum, Inc.: Tagum City, Davao Del Norte, Philippines

This document contains a student's assignment on basic inferential statistics. It includes questions that ask the student to classify different variables and measurements as descriptive or inferential, qualitative or quantitative, discrete or continuous, and nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio level. It also asks the student to define descriptive and inferential statistics and explain how statistics can be used in everyday life such as in education to evaluate learning and improve the teaching process.

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ST. MARY’S COLLEGE OF TAGUM, INC.

Tagum City, Davao del Norte, Philippines

GRADUATE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

First Semester (2021)


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Name: RELEN S. CALIHANAN Date: October 16, 2021


Course: MAED 1 - ENGLISH
Subject: BASIC INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
• Introduction to statistics

A. In each of the statements, tell whether descriptive or inferential statistics have been used.
Inferential 1. In the year 2010, 148 million Americans will be enrolled in HMO.

Descriptive 2. Nine out of ten on-the-job fatalities are men.

Inferential 3. Expenditures in the cable industry were P5.66 billion in 1996.

Inferential 4. The median Household income for people aged 24-35 is P35,888.

Descriptive 5. Allergy therapy makes bees go away.

B. Classify each variable as qualitative or quantitative.


Quantitative 1. Number of bicycles sold in 1 year by a large sporting goods store.

Qualitative 2. Colors of baseball caps in a store.

Quantitative 3. Times it takes to cut down a lawn.

Quantitative 4. Capacity in cubic feet of six truck beds.

Qualitative 5. Classification of children in a day-care center (infant, toddler, preschool).

C. Classify each variable as discrete or continuous.


Continuous 1. Number of doughnuts sold each day by Doughnut Heaven.

Continuous 2. Water temperature of six swimming pools in Pittsburg on a given day.


Continuous 3. Weights of cats in a pet shelter.

Discrete 4. Lifetime (in hours) of 12 flashlight batteries.

Continuous 5. Number of cheeseburgers sold each day by a hamburger stand on a


college campus.
D. Classify each as nominal-level, ordinal-level, interval-level, or ratio-level measurement.
Nominal-level 1. Pages in the city of Cleveland telephone book.

Ordinal-level 2. Rankings of tennis players.

Ratio-level 3. Weights of air conditioners.

Interval-level 4. Temperatures inside 10 refrigerators.

Ratio-level 5. Salaries of the top 5 CEOs in the Philippines.

E. Essay. Explain each of the following briefly.

1. Name and define two areas of statistics.

Descriptive statistics focus on describing the visible characteristics of a dataset (a population or


sample). Inferential statistics focus on making predictions or generalizations about a larger
dataset, based on a sample of those data.

2. Suggest some ways that statistics can be used in everyday life.

Measurement and evaluation are essential part of teaching-learning process. In this process we obtained
scores and then interpret these scores to take decisions. Statistics enables us to study these scores
objectively. It makes the teaching-learning process more efficient.

Prepared by: DAPHNE M. LEGASPINO, LPT MAED


Mathematics Instructor

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