UNIVERSITY OF NORTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES
School of Graduate Studies and Research
Iriga City
Final Examination in Inferential statistics
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Direction: Please answer in your own words the question/s being asked. If you copied your
answer from a source, please use proper citation and try to contextualize your answer.
1. Define statistics and its characteristics.
2. What makes statistics important in research? What makes the same important in your
field of specialization?
3. Differentiate descriptive from inferential statistics.
4. How do you classify data in statistics? Elaborate your answer.
5. What are the different categories of data? Give example related to your specialization,
6. Differentiate the measures of central tendency. Explain why mean is mostly used in
research than the other measures.
7. Differentiate parametric from non-parametric statistics.
8. Why do we need to use sampling in research?
9. What are the different ways to get sample or use sampling in research? Give an
example.
10. Why is it that there is no statistics used in qualitative research?
11. List down different types of parametric tests and give example when will it be used.
12. List down different types of non-parametric tests and where will it be used.
Please put your answer in a long sized document (8.5x13).
Use Arial 12, single space.
At the last part of your document, please include the (scanned) picture of your permit for the
verification of the permit number.
Once done, please email your exam to ernieavilapuprb@gmail.com
Thanks and good luck!
Prepared by:
ERNIE C. AVILA
Subject Facilitator