1.) Statistics: a science based on finding, organizing, summarizing, and analyzing information in order to draw conclusions 3.) individual
5.) statistic; parameter
7.) parameter
9.) statistic
11.) parameter
13.) statistic
15.) qualitative
17.) quantitative
19.) quantitative
21.) qualitative
23.) discrete
25.) continuous
27.) continuous
29.) discrete
39.) population: 13-17 year olds living in the U.S.; sample: 1028 13-17 year old living in the U.S.
40.) population: all bottles filled on october 15th; sample: 50 bottles filled on october 15th
41.) population: all of the soybean plants; sample: 100 selected soybean plants
42.) population: every household in the U.S.; sample: 50,000 surveyed households
13.) observational
14.) experiment
15.) experiment
16.) observational
17.)
a) This is a cohort study because the group of individuals is examined over a long period of time, as well as exposed to unintentional factors.
b) The explanatory variable is how happy the individual is, and the response variable is whether or not they develop heart disease.
c) This sentence is the researchers identifying a confounding variable which can occur when 2 or more explanatory variables aren't separated.