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State whether the following statement is/are true or false and justify your answer. (1) Statistics consist...

State whether the following statement is/are true or false and justify your answer.

(1) Statistics consist of information that is collected from specific source on a topic of interest.

(2) A population is a collection of items, individuals or elements.

(3) Inferential statistics is the art and science of collecting, presenting and interpreting data.

(4) A sample is a fraction or a subset of the population.

(5) A qualitative variable is a variable that measures qualitative characteristics.

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(1) Statistics consist of information that is collected from specific source on a topic of interest.

false, statistics is the practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data in large quantities

(2) A population is a collection of items, individuals or elements.

True, population is any set of of items or individuals which one is interested in

(3) Inferential statistics is the art and science of collecting, presenting and interpreting data.

false, statistics is the art and science of collecting, presenting and interpreting data (not inferential statistics, Inferential statistics is a statistical method that deduces from a small but representative sample the characteristics of a bigger population )

(4) A sample is a fraction or a subset of the population.

true, a sample is a set of individuals or objects collected or selected from a statistical population by a defined procedure

(5) A qualitative variable is a variable that measures qualitative characteristics.

true, A qualitative variable, also called a categorical variable, are variables that are not numerical

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