Chapter 3 Visualizing Data Distributions Full Test Bank - Answer Key + Test Bank | Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice 5e by Bachman by Ronet D. Bachman. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 3: Data Visualization Techniques: Ways of Understanding Data Distributions
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The examination of distribution of one variable is a ______.
a. multivariate analysis
b. bivariate analysis
c. univariate analysis
d. single-variate analysis
Learning Objective: 3.1. Describe the purpose of frequency distributions to examine a variable.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Which of the following would best depict nominal level data?
a. bar chart
b. line graph
c. histogram
d. polygon
Learning Objective: 3.2. Identify bar charts and pie charts and the types of variables for which they are used.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Pie and bar charts
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. If you ask respondents to your questionnaire what political party they identify with, you would use a ______ to illustrate the data collected for this variable.
a. frequency polygon
b. histogram
c. pie chart
d. line graph
Learning Objective: 3.2. Identify bar charts and pie charts and the types of variables for which they are used.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pie and bar charts
4. If you ask individuals about the number of people they know that have been incarcerated, you would use a ______ to illustrate the data collected for this variable.
a. frequency polygon
b. histogram
c. pie chart
d. bar chart
Learning Objective: 3.4. Describe the difference between a histogram and a bar chart.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Histograms
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. The difference between a pie and a bar chart is ______.
a. a bar chart is for interval/ratio variables
b. a pie chart is for interval/ratio variables
c. a pie chart is superior to a bar chart for nominal/ordinal variables
d. none of the above
Learning Objective: 3.2. Identify bar charts and pie charts and the types of variables for which they are used.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pie and bar charts
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. A researcher using a measure at the ratio level would use a ______ to illustrate the data.
a. histogram
b. bar chart
c. polygon
d. pie chart
Learning Objective: 3.5. Describe the difference between a histogram and line graph.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Line graphs and polygons
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. ______ groups the values of an interval or ratio level variable into a smaller number of intervals and illustrates the frequencies and percentages for the groups.
a. Frequency distribution
b. Grouped frequency distribution
c. Cumulative distribution
d. Cumulative frequency distribution
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Which of the following is NOT required for a grouped frequency distribution (only one answer)?
a. same-class interval width
b. exhaustive class intervals
c. mutually exclusive class intervals
d. use of at least 7 class intervals
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Class intervals in a grouped frequency distribution that do not overlap with other intervals are ______.
a. exhaustive
b. mutually exclusive
c. provides all values
d. not required
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. A value of a variable that is halfway between the top of an interval and the bottom of the next interval is ______.
a. the stated class limit
b. the real lower limit
c. the real upper limit
d. the real limit
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Refinements to a grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. Values that are the lowest and highest in an interval are ______.
a. the stated class limit
b. the real lower limit
c. the real upper limit
d. the real limit
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Refinements to a grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Given the following grouped distribution, what would the real upper limit be for the group of 106–108?
Class Limits | f | % |
100–102 | 15 | 31.25 |
103–105 | 12 | 25 |
106–108 | 8 | 16.67 |
109–111 | 7 | 14.58 |
112–114 | 4 | 8.33 |
115 and higher | 2 | 4.12 |
Total N | 48 | |
a. 108.0
b. 108.05
c. 108.49
d. 108.5
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Refinements to a grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. The following equation, 
, represents ______.
a. estimated interval width
b. midpoint of class limit
c. ratio change score
d. percent change score
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Refinements to a grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. When a distribution has a long left tail, it is said to be ______.
a. normally distributed
b. positively skewed
c. negatively skewed
d. inversely skewed
Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The shape of a distribution
Difficulty Level: Easy
15. When a distribution has a long right tail, it is said to be ______.
a. normally distributed
b. positively skewed
c. negatively skewed
d. inversely skewed
Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The shape of a distribution
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. When collecting surveys about the number of offenses people commit, you find that 60% committed zero offenses and the other 40% committed between 1 and 10 offenses. The shape of this distribution would be ______.
a. normally distributed
b. positively skewed
c. negatively skewed
d. inversely skewed
Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The shape of a distribution
Difficulty Level: Easy
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17. A researcher would use a pie chart to illustrate the level of security inmates in her/his survey are in.
Learning Objective: 3.4. Describe the difference between a histogram and a bar chart.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Pie and bar charts
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. A researcher would use a histogram for the variable “number of times arrested.”
Learning Objective: 3.4. Describe the difference between a histogram and a bar chart.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Histograms
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. Class intervals must be mutually exclusive and exhaustive.
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. A distribution that has outliers at the right end of the distribution is likely to be positively skewed.
Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The shape of a distribution
Difficulty Level: Easy
21. In a survey you conduct, 80% of respondents say they have never been the victim of a crime while the rest state they have been the victim of a crime 10-20 times. This distribution is likely to be negatively skewed.
Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The shape of a distribution
Difficulty Level: Easy
Essay
22. Discuss the different types of graphical representations (pie charts, bar charts, histograms, and polygons). What are the levels of measurement that can be used with each type of graphical representation?
Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The tabular and graphical display of quantitative data
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. What is the difference between a grouped and ungroup frequency distribution? Give an example that is not in the textbook of when you would want to use a grouped frequency distribution. Give an example that is not in the textbook of when you would want to use an ungrouped frequency distribution.
Learning Objective: 3.3. Explain the usefulness of a grouped frequency distribution for a quantitative variable.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension/Application
Answer Location: Grouped frequency distributions
Difficulty Level: Hard
24. Discuss a normal distribution, a positively skewed distribution, and a negatively skewed distribution.
Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The shape of a distribution
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Using the following table to graph the number of months one has been incarcerated. Is the distribution normally distributed, positively skewed, or negatively skewed? Why?
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Learning Objective: 3.7. Identify the shape of a distribution and determine types of skewness.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The shape of a distribution
Difficulty Level: Medium
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