The advent of computers in research has led to:
A. limitations of options in analysis
B. tremendous amount of flexibility with marginal increase in cost
C. myopic exposure of statistics to the researcher
D. none of the above
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The sum of squared deviations is minimum when taken from
A. mean
B. median
C. mode
D. none of these
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Statistical Errors means:
A. Mistakes made during data collection
B. Mistakes made during calculations
C. Difference between actual value and estimated value
D. Difference between old data and new data
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Compute the coefficient of range from the following data 91, 54, 44, 56, 71, 25, 09, 27, 72, 62.
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The moments about mean are called:
A. Raw moments
B. Central moments
C. Moments about origin
D. All of the above
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Both the regression coefficients cannot be
A. less than one
B. greater than one
C. equal to one
D. none of these
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The mean of the frequency distribution of the economics marks of 100 students is 20. It was later found that the number 23 was misread as 25. What will be the correct mean?
A. 1.998
B. 1998
C. 19.98
D. 1999.8
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Consider the following statements.
Assertion (A): The expected values should be at least 5 to apply the chi-square test.
Reason (R): The chi-square distribution provides an adequate approximation of the sampling distribution.
Indicate the correct answer from the following:
A. Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the right explanation
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (A) is false, but (R) is true
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Hostorically the first index was constructed in . . . . . . . .
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Which of the following are true for report writing under statistics?
1. A description explanation or development of the methodology tube used.
2. Analysis should be full scale analysis.
3. In the subsection containing the actual analysis it is important that you describe your analysis sufficiently clearly.
A. Both 1 and 2
B. Both 2 and 3
C. Both 1 and 3
D. All of these
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Size of the sample is determined in terms of
A. the margin of error permissible in the estimate
B. the confidence coefficient with, which we want the estimate to be within the margin of error
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
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This is not the purpose of tabulation
A. Explaining the nature of the data
B. Simplifying the data
C. Simplifying the comparison
D. Editing the data
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Assertion (A) Median of a distribution is that value of the variant which divides it in two equal parts.
Reason (R) Median is a positional average.
A. Both (A) and (R) are true
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C. Both (A) and (R) are false
D. (A) is true, but (R) is false
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What is/are the main benefits of degrees of freedom (DoF) in small tests?
A. A higher degree of freedom means more power to reject a false null hypothesis and find a significant result
B. Degrees of Freedom is an essential idea that appears in many contexts throughout statistics including hypothesis tests, probability distributions, and regression analysis
C. Degrees of Freedom indicate the number of independent values that can vary in an analysis without breaking any constraints
D. All of the above
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. . . . . . . . is a true measure of dispersion.
A. Range
B. Mean deviation
C. Inter-quartile range
D. None of these
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Which one of the following statistical measure is not affected by extremely large or small numbers?
A. Median
B. Harmonic mean
C. Standard deviation
D. Coefficient of variation
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What is a research design?
A. A way of conducting research that is not grounded in theory
B. The choice between using gualitative or quanritative methods
C. The style in which you present your research findings, e.g., a graph
D. A framework for every stage of the collection and analysis of data
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If the dependent variable increases as the independent variable increases in an estimating equation, the co-efficient of correlation will be in the range
A. 0 to (-)1
B. 0 to (-)0
C. 0 to (-)0.05
D. 0 to 1
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Important objective of statistical analysis is to get . . . . . . . . that describes the characteristics of the entire data.
A. single value
B. average value
C. central value
D. All of these
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In univariate data analysis, T-test is used when the data are in the form of
A. metric data with one sample
B. non-metric data
C. non-metric data with independent variable
D. metric data with independent two samples
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