Claudia Taylor, Director of Global Industrial Sales in Melbourne, is concerned by a deteriorating sales trend. Specifically, the number of customers is stable at 1500 but they are purchasing less each year. She orders her staff to search for causes of the downward trend by selecting a focus group of 40 industrial customers. For this study, the set of 40 industrial customers is a （）.

单项选择题Michael Bayley, Marketing Director of UniPower’s Electrical Division, is leading a study to identify and assess the relative importance of product features. Michael directs his staff to design a survey questionnaire for distribution to all of UniPower’s 954 customers. For this study, the set of 954 customers is a （）.

A.statistic
B.population
C.parameter
D.sample

单项选择题Penny Bauer, Chief Financial Officer of Harrison Haulage, suspects irregularities in the payroll system, and orders an inspection of ‘each and every payroll voucher issued since 1 January 2005’. Five per cent of the payroll vouchers contained material errors. This is an example of （）.

A.nonparametric statistics
B.nominal data
C.descriptive statistics
D.inferential statistics

单项选择题X is a discrete random variable that can have values from 0 to infinity, and occurrences of the events X counts are independent. The standard deviation of X is equal to the square root of the mean. The probability distribution of X is a(n) （）distribution.

A.binomial
B.uniform
C.normal
D.Possion

单项选择题The empirical rule tells us that approximately of the values cluster within a distance of 1 standard deviation from the mean for a bell-shaped distribution（）

A.68%
B.95%
C.99.7%
D.none of the above

单项选择题The reason that we prefer the sample standard deviation as our measure of typical variation instead of the sample variance is that（）

A.the variance is not as accurate a measurement as the standard deviation
B.the standard deviation has been corrected for bias while the variance has not
C.the standard deviation is in the same units as the data values.
D.the variance is in the same units as the data values.