Statistics

B.A/B.SC [part-I] 2019

Time allowed: 3 hours Max Marks: 75

Note: Attempt only five questions. Question No. 1 is compulsory, select two from each section.
All questions carry equal marks.

Q:1 Tick mark ☑ the right answer.

● Half of the observation are always larger than
(a) Mean. (b) Median © Mode (d) Total
● In a positively skewed distribution the mean is
(a) Smaller than median (b) larger than median © Equal to the median (d) none
● The seasonal variation in the time series is computed by
(a) Trend (b) Cyclical © Seasonal (d) Irregular
● A binomial distribution may be approximated by a poisson distribhtion when
(a) n is large and p is small (b) n is small and p is large © n and p are small (d) n and
p are large
● A discrete probability distribution may be represented by
(a) A table (b) A mathematical function © A histogram (d) All of the above.

Section-A
Q:2 (a) Calculate the mean, median and modal numbers of persons per house from the data.

No of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
persons

No of 26 113 120 95 60 42 21 14 5 4
houses

(b) what is frequency distribution? Discuss briefly the steps involve in the construction of
frequency distribution.
Q:3 The price relatives of three commodities are given below

Year A B C

1934 100 100 100

1935 105 97 121
1936 110 94 125
1937 115 100 130
1938 116 99 128
1939 120 105 130

Chain the above indices to a 1934 base.

Q:4 (a) write down the components of time series.
(b) Determine the trend line by using 7-year moving averages.

Week Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

Sat
 1 24 55 29 48 52 55 61
2 27 52 32 43 53 56 65

Section-B
Q:5 (a) What is hypergeometric distribution and its properties.
(b) An urn contains 4 red balls and 6 black balls. A sample of 4 balls is selected from the urn
without replacement. Let be the number of red balls contained in the sample, then find the
probability distribution for X.
Q. 6 (a) The joint p. d of two discrete r. v X and Y is given by
f(x, y) = xy2 /30 for x = 1,2,3 and y = 1,2
Are X and Y independent?
(b) What s random variable, also give examples.
Q. 7 (a) Diffrentiate binomial and negative binomial distribution.
(b)