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Question
43 Which of the following is not a multiple comparison procedure we have discussed in class or seen in the texts.a) Fisher's LSD test.
b) The Stroop test.
c) The Bonferroni test.
d) The Newman-Keuls test.
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e) The lower hinge
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a) interquartile range
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c) serves to anchor the box.
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d) a statistic whose long range average is equal to the parameter it estimates
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35 Which of the following is probably most useful in studies in which extreme scores sometimes occur but have no real practical significance?
a) mean
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a) mode
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a) The mode is 9.
b) The median is 9.
c) The mean is 9.
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21 Suppose a sample of children reported how many voices they heard in their heads on a particular day, and that hearing voices was a relatively uncommon experience. In this case the mode
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b) will tell us nothing about the children who do hear voices.
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c) *it is not disproportionately affected by extreme scores.
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a) 3
b) 11
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43 A "variable" refers to data that is constant.