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Chapter 1: Q 8. (page 32)
Identify and explain the significance of the three basic principles of experimental design.
Control, Randomization, and Replication are the three basic principles of experimental design.
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In sampling, explain why obtaining a representative sample is important.
Oklahoma State Officials. The five top Oklahoma state officials are displayed in Table 1.2 on page 11. Use that table to solve the following problems.
(a). List the 10 possible samples (without replacement) of size 3 that can be obtained from the population of five officials.
(b). If a simple random sampling procedure is used to obtain a sample of three officials, what are the chances that it is the first sample on your list in part (a)? the second sample? the tenth sample?
Ballistic Fingerprinting. In an on-line press release, ABCNews.com reported that "...73 percent of Americans... favor a law that would require every gun sold in the United States to be test-fired first, so law enforcement would have its fingerprint in case it were ever used in a crime."
(a). Do you think that the statement in the press release is inferential or descriptive? Can you be sure?
(b). Actually, ABCNews.com conducted a telephone survey of a random national sample of 1032 adults and determined that 73% of them favored a law that would require every gun sold in the United States to be test-fired first, so law enforcement would have its fingerprint in case it were ever used in a crime. How would you rephrase the statement in the press release to make clear that it is a descriptive statement? an inferential statement?
The members of a population are numbered 1-5.
(a) List the 10 possible samples (without replacement) of size 3 from this population.
(b) SRS of size 3 is taken from the population, what are the chances of selecting 1, 3, and 5? Explain your answer.
(c) Use Table I in Appendix A to obtain an SRS of size 3 from the population. Start at the single-digit number in line number 5 and column number 20, read down the column, up the next, and so on.
The members of a population are numbered 1-4.
(a). List the 6 possible samples (without replacement) of size 2 from this population.
(b). If an SRS of size 2 is taken from the population, what are the chances of selecting 2 and 3? Explain your answer.
(c). Use Table I in Appendix A to obtain an SRS of size 2 from the population. Start at the single-digit number in line number 17 and column number 7, read down the column, up the next, and so on.
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