NURS 323 Midterm Exam Review 2026/2027 – College of Mount Saint Vincent – Nursing Practice & Theory – Verified Questions & Answers Study Guide (Grade A)

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Descriptive Statistics

Summarizing and describing data (population you work with ex. 80% of population) (graphs,
charts or rates)

- Ex. calculate average, mean, etc. (or creating graphs)




Inferential Statistics

Draw conclusions and make predictions about populations based on data (ex. comparing p-
values) (plot or table)

- Ex. test, hypothesis, comparisons




Sampling Process: Population of Interest

The group the researcher wants to study and draw conclusions about or inference about
(interested in knowing more about) (ex. nursing students)




Sampling Process: Statistical Population

Pool of individuals from which a statistical sample is drawn from (who could have been in your
sample) (ex. nursing students at queens)

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Sampling Process: Observational Unit

The levels to which you are collecting data and will make inferences (often individual people)




Sampling Process: Sampling Unit

The levels to which the sampling of observation occurs (hospital) (ex. observation)




Sampling Process: Sample

Collection of selected sampling units (ex. individual student)




Sampling Process: Measurement Variable

The type of data you are collecting




Sampling Process: Measurement Unit

The scale of the measurement variable




Why sample?

- Capture data on everyone in the population of interest is considered a census