ACTIVITY B
Directions: Match the definition/s in Column B to the corresponding research term in
Column A. Write your answer on a clean sheet of paper.
COLUMN B
COLUMN A
1. Statistics
A. An example of this is the mean income of all the families of
a city.
B. It is the theoretically specific aggregation of the elements.
This is also called universe.
2. Variable
3. Sample
C. It is the actual list of sampling units from which the sample,
or some stage of the sample, is selected.
4. Hypothesis
5. Sampling
Frame
D. It is a set of exclusive attributes. Examples are sex, age,
and employment status.
E. This refers to the research design (paradigm as well as
statistics and analysis) as well as the approximate timeline for
completion of the study.
6. Element
F. It is an element or aggregation of elements from which
information is collected.
7. Research
Methodology
G. It is the summary description of a given variable in a
sample. An example of this can be the mean income computed
from a sample and the age distribution of a sample.
8. Parameter
H. This refers to the members of the population.
9. Population
1. These are the people who are actually selected to participate
or to be the subject in the study.
10. Observation
Unit
J. It is an educated guess about the answer to a specific
question.
K. It is the element or set of elements considered for selection
in some stage of sampling.​