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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Read each question very carefully and make sure that you
understand the question.
2. You are allowed to consult faculty to remove any doubt
3. Rough working can be done in the answer book and cross out
rough working before handing your answer book.
4. Leave your mobile phones outside the examination hall.
5. Calculator is allowed.
Attempt all question.
Q1: A sample of underweight babies was fed a special diet and the following weight
gains (lbs) were observed at the end of three month.
6.7 2.7 2.5 3.6 3.4 4.1 4.8 5.9 8.3
The mean and standard deviation are:
Q2: Fill in the missing words to the quote: Statistical methods may be described as
methods for drawing conclusions about -----based on -----computed from the ---------.
Q4: A part of a circle/pie graph that explains the colors that represent each part or slice of
the graph is a
(a) Legend
(b) Grid
(c) Axis
Q11: When the data is in initial stage and has not been applied any processing, it is called
------.
a) Raw data
b) Ungrouped data
c) Fresh data
d) All of the above
Q12: Data A has coefficient of variation of 4% and Data B has coefficient of variation of
1%. A valid statement is
a) Data A has more variability
b) Data B has more variability
(c ) Nothing can be said with surety, unless we know each datas mean and
standard deviation.
Q13: The key element of the ________statistic is the ratio ( ) which compares the
Q14: In contingency tables with r rows and c columns, the degrees of freedom of
the chi-square test is
a) (r-1) ( c-1)
b) r-1/c-1
c) r+c-1
Q15: By inferences we may mean making conclusions about the ________ based on
sample.
a) Sample
b) Population
Q16: Obeying the statistical rules, a good sample is selected _________ from _____
a) Non-randomly, population
b) Randomly, population
c) Following personal choices, sample
Q17: Sampling is that part of statistical practice which is concerned with the selection of
individual observations.
a) True
b) False
Q18: Consider a population of potato sacks, each of which has either 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, or 18 potatoes, and all the values are equally likely. Suppose that, in this population,
there is exactly one sack with each number. So the whole population has seven sacks.
a) True
b) False
Q19: In simple random sampling with replacement, each observation has ______ chance
of being selected.
a) Equal but unknown
b) Equal and known
c) Unequal and unknown
Q 20 : The branch of statistics that deals with collection and depiction of data is called
---------
a) Descriptive statistics
b) Mathematical modeling
c) Inferential statistics
Q 21: Continuous variable can assume every possible value within the given range
a) True
b) False
a) 3.6
b) 3.4
c) 4.2
d) 2.0
Q 25: The most frequent observation of a data is called
a) Variance
b) Median
c) Mode
Q 26: The Range and the Mean of the following data are ( respectively)
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2.
a) 2 and 1.8182
b) 2 and 2
c) 1 and 1.8182
d) 0 and 1.8182
Q 27: The Variance of the following data is
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 2.
a) 0.65
b) 0.56
c) 2.12
Q 28: In a symmetric distribution the Mean, Median and Mode are equal.
(a) True
(b) False.
Q 29: There are three quartiles.
a) True
b) False
Q 30: The formula for ------- is =[3(n+1)/4] item, and 75 % data lies before it.
a) Q 3
b) P75
c) Both (a) and (b)
Q 31: Suppose that we have to estimate the population mean of a non-normal variable.
Moreover the population variance is known and a sample of size hundred is drawn , we
shall use
a. T- distribution
b. Z-distribution
b. Type-II error
Q 33: C.V=S.D/Mean
a) True
b) False
Q 34: Lesser the-------, lesser is the variability in the data
a) Variance
c) Coefficient of variation
Q 35: Mean, Median and Mode coincide in which of the following distributions
a) Normal distribution
b) T-distribution
Q36: Standard normal variable is defined as,
a) A variable which has mean zero and variance one.
b) A variable which follows normal distribution, with mean zero and variance one.
c) A non-normal variable that is formed using another normal variable.
Q 37: Normal distribution is a --------distribution
a) Continuous
b) Bell-shaped
c) Symmetric
d) All of above
Q 38: Estimation is one of the two important concerns of Inferential Statistics, the other
is------------.
a) Reporting summary values for the population
b) Testing of hypothesis