Statistics salkind 4e test bank ch19

Chapter 19: A Statistical Software Sampler
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. According to the text, what is one of the most important things to remember when buying a

statistics software package?
a. Buy direct from the manufacturer
b. Try before you buy
c. Always buy shareware
d. Share software packages with friends
ANS:
REF:
OBJ:
COG:

B
PTS: 1
DIF: Easy
Selecting the Perfect Statistics Software
Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
Knowledge

2. Which of the following statistical software packages is free?
a. SSP
b. Minitab
c. SPSS
d. JMP
ANS:
REF:
OBJ:
COG:

A
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
SSP (Smith’s Statistical Package)
Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
Knowledge

3. Which of the following is billed as “statistical discovery software” that produces graphics

with each statistical procedure?
a. SPSS
b. JMP
c. R
d. Minitab
ANS: B
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: JMP
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
4. According to the text, which of the following is the most popular statistical software package?
a. STATISTICA
b. Minitab
c. JMP
d. SPSS
ANS: D

PTS: 1

DIF: Medium

REF: SPSS


OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
5. Which of the following programs is most often used by researchers in the biological and

physical sciences?
a. SYSTAT
b. Minitab
c. R
d. STATISTICA
ANS: A
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: SYSTAT
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
6. Self-prompting dialog boxes and the ability to use macros to automate tasks are features of

_______.
a. SPSS
b. STATISTICA
c. Minitab
d. R
ANS: B
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium

REF: STATISTICA
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
7. Which of the following is free and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix platforms but

takes a while to get used to because the learning curve tends to be a bit steep?
a. R
b. Minitab
c. StatCrunch
d. SPSS
ANS: A
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: R
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
8. Which program operates under a General Public License?
a. R
b. SAS
c. Gnumeric spreadsheet
d. JMP
ANS: C
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: Gnumeric Spreadsheet
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge


9. Before you buy any statistics package, you should make sure of all of the following EXCEPT

this:
a. There is telephone technical assistance.
b. You have the hardware capacity for the program.
c. The software works with your computer’s operating system.
d. Your computer is shut down.
ANS:
REF:
OBJ:
COG:

D
PTS: 1
DIF: Easy
Selecting the Perfect Statistics Software
Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
Knowledge

10. Which of the following programs contains a set of utilities including a Statistical Tables

Calculator and a Simple Graph Maker?
a. PSPP
b. SPSS
c. VassarStats
d. STATISTIX for Windows
ANS: C
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: VassarStats
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data

COG: Knowledge
11. Which of the following programs used to be called WebSTAT?
a. SSP
b. SPSS
c. StatCrunch
d. JMP
ANS: C
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: StatCrunch
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
12. Which of the following programs contains utilities that include StatGuide, which helps

explain output, and ReportPad, which is a report generator?
a. Minitab
b. SPSS
c. SYSTAT
d. JMP
ANS: A
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: Minitab
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
TRUE/FALSE


1. PSPP is an open-source variant of SPSS.
ANS: T

PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: PSPP
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge
2. Almost all big statistics packages do the same things. However, they are different in the ways

they do them.
ANS:
REF:
OBJ:
COG:

T
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
Selecting the Perfect Statistics Software
Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
Knowledge

SHORT ANSWER
1. What sciences are SPSS oriented toward?
ANS:

Social and behavioral sciences
PTS: 1
DIF: Medium
REF: SYSTAT
OBJ: Other types of software that allow you to analyze, chart, and better understand your data
COG: Knowledge