One of the authors came across an article (USA Today, 2008) that said that on average Americans have visited 16 states in the Un
ited States. In a survey of 50 students in her introductory statistics class, she found the average number of states the students had visited to be 9.48 and the standard deviation to be 7.13. The data were not strongly skewed. 1. Identify the observational unit for this study.
Observational units are the entities whose characteristics we measure. Although in some cases, the observational units are the same as the experimental units, this is not always the case. In this case, the entities that are beong observed and examined are students. This is because the survey designed was given to 50 students in an introductory statistics class.
