Lodging properties providing a 24-hour front desk, upgraded interior and exterior decors, limited food service, extra room amenities, and other services would fit into which of the following categories?

________ are hypothesis testing procedures that assume that the variables are measured on a nominal or ordinal scale

A) Parameter tests B) Parametric tests C) Nonparametric tests D) None of the above

A steep upward-sloping yield curve indicates that short-term interest rates are expected to

A) neither rise nor fall in the near future. B) remain relatively unchanged, but that long-term rates are expected to fall. C) neither rise nor fall, but that long-term rates are expected to rise moderately. D) rise moderately in the near future.