Nursing quiz

1. The indices used to measure variation or dispersion among scores are all, except:

A. Range

B. Variance

C. Standard deviation

D. Mean

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2. A measure of dispersion of a set of observations in which it is calculated by the difference between the highest and lowest values produced is called:

A. Standard deviation

B. Variance

C. Range

D. Mode

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3. A statistic which describes the interval of scores bounded by the 25th and 75th percentile ranks is:

A. Inter quartile range

B. Confidence Interval

C. Standard deviation

D. Variance 

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4. The Median value is the:

A. 25th percentile

B. 50th percentile

C. 75th percentile

D. 95th percentile

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5. Large standard deviations suggest that:

A. scores are probably widely scattered.

B. there is very little deference among scores.

C. mean, median and mode are the same

D. the scores not normally distributed.

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6. The formula given below is computational formula for:

A. Variance

B. Mean

C. Standard deviation

D. t-statistic

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7. The squire of the standard deviation is the:

A. Variance.

B. Standard error

C. Z-score

D. Variance

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8. Which is NOT a characteristic of normal distribution?

A. Symmetric Copyright@ http://currentnursing.com/Quiz

B. Bell-shaped

C. Mean = median = mode

D. Negative skewness

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9. Skewness is a measure:

A. of the asymmetry of the probability distribution

B. decides the distribution may have high or low variance

C. of central tendency

D. None of the above

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10. The formula given below is used to calculate:

	O= Observed frequency
	E= Expected frequency

A. t-test statistic

B. chi-squire statistic

C. correlation coefficient

D. Standard deviation

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