Aresearcher studies the average distance that 130 people living in u. s. urban areas walk each week.
a. what is the size of the sample?
b. identify the population.
c. is this "average" a descriptive statistic or an inferential statistic if it is used to describe the 130 people studied?
d. how might you operationalize the average distance walked in 1 week as an ordinal measure?
e. how might you operationalize the average distance walked in 1 week as a scale measure? nolan, susan; heinzen, thomas. essentials of statistics for the behavioral sciences (page 16). worth publishers. kindle edition.