PSQT IMPORTANT QUESTIONS PROBABILITY 1. Define mathematical and statistical probability. Give the limitations of mathematical probability. 2.

State and prove addition theorem of probability 3. State and prove multiplication theorem of probability 4. What is conditional probability? Explain it? 5. State and prove Bayes theorem of probability 6. Explain the concepts of independent ,pair wise independent, mutually independent 7. Define the geometric probability RANDOM VARIABLES 8. Define the following i) random variable ii) discrete random variable iii) continuous random variable iv) distribution function v) p m f vi) p d f 9. Define distribution function and write the properties 10. What is joint probability function? 11. Define the following i) marginal probability functions of x and y ii) conditional probability functions of x/y and y/x . 12. Define the following i) joint distribution function ii) marginal distributional functions of X and Y iii) conditional distribution of x/y and y/x MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATIONS 13. Define mathematical expectation and write their properties 14. State and prove addition theorem of expectation 15. State and multiplication theorem of expectation 16. Define m g f and write their properties 17. Define characteristic function and write their properties. 18. Define the c .g .f and write their properties 19. Define the p .g .f and write their properties DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS 20. Define binomial distribution and find mean and variance through m g f? 21. Obtain first four central moments through recurrence relation. 22. Obtain skew ness and kurtosis through cumulates 23. Prove that binomial is a limiting case of Poisson distribution. 24. Prove that binomial tends to normal distribution 25. Define Poisson distribution and obtain mean and variance through c g f 26. Obtain skew ness and kurtosis through recurrence relationship 27. Poisson is a limiting case of normal distribution 28. Define negative binomial distribution and find mean and variance 29. Derive the m g f ,c f, p g f of the negative binomial distribution CONTENUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS 30. Define uniform distribution and obtain the mean and variance 31. Define the exponential distribution and obtain the skew ness and kurtosis through m g f 32. Explain the memory less property of exponential distribution 33. Define the normal distribution and find the m g f

34. What is the standard normal variate ? and obtain the c g f 35. Write the chief characteristics of normal distribution 36. Derive the mode of the normal distribution 37. Explain the area property of normal distribution? CURVE FITTING 38. Explain the concept of principle of least squares and hoe to fit a straight line by using least squares method? 39. How to fit a second degree parabola? CORRELATION AND REGRESSION 40. Define correlation and write the properties of correlation 41. Define the regression and write the properties of regression 42. What is an attribute and explain the concept of Yules coefficient of association? 43. Explain the concept of multiple regression 44. Write the test procedure for good ness of fit 45. Write the test procedure for independence of attributes STATISTICAL INFERENCE 46. Define the following i)population ii) sample iii) statistic iv) parameter v)sampling distribution vi) standard error 47. When we say that an estimator is said to be good estimator? Explain it? 48. Explain the concept of MLE 49. What is an interval estimation? Explain the concept? TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS (LARGE AND SMALL) 50. Define the following i) hypothesis ii) null hypothesis iii) alternative hypothesis iv)critical region v) type-1, type 2 errors vii) level of significance viii) power of the test 51. Test of significance for single mean when the samples are taken from normal population 52. Test of significance for difference of means when the samples are taken from two normal populations 53. Write the test procedure to test the significance for proportions 54. Write the test procedure to test the procedure for standard deviations 55. Write the test procedure to test the procedure for correlation coefficient. 56. Write the test procedures for t-test (means, correlation, regression). 57. Write the test procedures for F-test(equality of variance) QUEING THEORY 58. Define queue and write the characteristics of queue 59. Write the notes on the following i) Birth and death process ii) waiting time distribution 60. Derive the waiting line distribution in the queue for M/M/1 model 61. Show that average no. of unit in M/M/1 system equal to ( / (1-) ) 62. For M/M/1 queuing system find expected value of queue length n.