A researcher uses an anonymous survey to investigate the study habits of American college students. Based on the set of 56 surve
ys that were completed and returned, the researcher finds that these students spend an average of 4.1 hours each week working on course material outside of class. For this study, the average of 4.1 hours is an example of a?
A statistic is any quantity computed from values in a sample. Some examples of statistics are: sample mean (also called average, like in this case), sample median, sample mode, sample standard deviation, sample quartiles and sample percentiles.
