1. True or false: Statistical inference consists of methods for estimating and drawing conclusions about sample characteristics based on the information contained in the population.

2. True or false: A parameter is a characteristic of a sample.

3. Statistics is the art and science of ___________, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data.

4. An __________ is the set of values of all variables for a given element.

5. A statistic is a characteristic of a __________.

6. Is a sample survey examining the effects of secondhand smoke an example of an experimental study or an observational study?

7. State which type of statistical study is involved in the following. A large pharmaceutical company is interested in whether a new drug will reduce Alzheimer's disease symptoms in elderly patients.

8. For the study in the previous exercise, identify the predictor variable and the response variable.

9. Suppose we are interested in the proportion of lefthanded statistics students, and we take a sample to estimate the percent of students in our class who are left-handed.

10. Describe what is wrong, if anything, with the following survey question. “How often would you say that you attend the movie theater: often, occasionally, sometimes, seldom, or never?”