Modeling a Business

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Across
  1. 7. Used by statisticians to determine if evidence exists to believe a hypothesis.
  2. 9. When elements are randomly selected using a random number table.
  3. 12. Describes the situation in which researchers cannot manipulate variables; can be designed using a completely randomized design.
  4. 14. A recognizable logo, font, artistic design, or specific phrase associated with a particular product or service.
  5. 16. Pairs of subjects that are matched to eliminate individual differences.
  6. 17. A sample of a population researchers use to evaluate a product.
  7. 18. A study that imposes a treatment on the subjects to determine if the treatment has an effect.
  8. 20. A group of subjects in an experimental study who receive a placebo, or “dummy” treatment.
  9. 22. A sample that is proportionally the same with respect to some criteria, as the total population.
  10. 23. A sample that has the same chance of being selected as every other sample with the same sample size; aims to reduce bias.
Down
  1. 1. A sample that is easily accessible to a researcher.
  2. 2. A list of digits that was randomly generated.
  3. 3. Describes a situation that occurs when a part of the population does not have a chance to be in a sample.
  4. 4. A specific group a researcher is looking to study.
  5. 5. Describes the situation in which researchers use data from a sample to make a generalization about an entire population.
  6. 6. When a subject for a sample used in a study can be picked again for the sample.
  7. 7. An educated guess, or a reasonable explanation, based on theory and/or experience.
  8. 8. The product of a positive integer and every positive integer less than it; indicated by an exclamation point (!)
  9. 10. A claim for ownership of an idea for an invention that inventors file with the government; gives the inventor certain rights.
  10. 11. A subset of elements that is chosen without regard to order.
  11. 13. A method of selecting subjects for a study which is based on chance alone. Attempting to minimize the differences between groups by equally distributing the subjects’ variations.
  12. 15. The group in an experiment which receives a treatment, as compared to a placebo.
  13. 19. The repetition of application of a treatment to many subjects.
  14. 21. An unfair influence on the result of a survey.
  15. 22. Any subset of a population.