ASO/MPSO STATISTICS (PAPER-II) SAMPLE QUESTION BANK

1. Two events, A and B, are said to be mutually 7. Mode is calculated graphically by___ ( )
exclusive if: ( ) a.Ogive b. Lorenze
a. P(A | B) = 1 c. Histogram d. Line Diagram
b. P(B | A) = 1
c. P(A and B) = 1 8.What Percentile Values Lies between 5th and
d. P(A and B) = 0 25th_______ ( )
a. 15% b. 20% c. 25% d. 30%
2. If P(A) = 0.8, P(B) = 0.3 and P(A|B) = 0.6,
what is P(A and B)? ( ) 9. The Govt. Organization whose primary
a. 0.18 responsibility is organizing Socio-economic
b. 0.24 Surveys_____ ( )
c. 0.03 a. ISI b. CSO c. NSSO d. Ministry of Statistics
d. 0.30
10. Variance of a Constant is______ ( )
3. What is statistical inference? ( ) a. 1 b. α c. 0 d. – α
a. The process of drawing conclusions about a
sample based on population data 11. The limits of Bowley's coefficient of
b. The process of drawing conclusions about a skewness are ( )
statistic based on a parameter a.-1 and +1 b. o and α c. 1and2 d. -3 and +3
c. The process of drawing conclusions about a
population based on a parameter
d. The process of drawing conclusions about a 12. The formula for correlation coefficient was
population based on sample data found by---- ( )
a. Bowley b. Karl Pearson
4. A frequency distribution is a(n): ( ) c. Spearman d. Gaussian
a. table of the individual observations collected
from a sample. 13. Chi-square test of goodness of fit was gh·en
b. individual listing of the random values found by whom? ( )
in a data set. a. Prof. RA Fisher b. Prof. Karl Pearson
c. listing of the individual observations arranged c. Prof. P.C Mahalanobis d. Prof. C.R. Rao
in ascending or descending order.
d. table, which classifies the number of data 14. CSO stands for_________ ( )
values into classes with counts of the number of a. Census Statistical Organisation
data values that fall into each of the classes. b. Central Statistical Organisation
c. Common Statistical Office
5. A “Type I error” occurs when we: ( ) d. Census Statistical Office
a. reject a false null hypothesis
b. reject a true null hypothesis 15. Which of the following is not non-
c. do not reject a false null hypothesis probability sampling? ( )
d. do not reject a true null hypothesis a.Purposive Sampling b. Quota Sampling
c. Convenience Sampling d. Stratified Sampling
6. The purpose of hypothesis testing is to: ( )
a. test how far the mean of a sample is from zero 16. In which distribution Mean and Variance
b. determine whether a statistical result is are equal? ( )
significant a. Binomial Distribution
c. determine the appropriate value of the b. Gamma Distribution
significance level c. Normal Distribution
d. derive the standard error of the data d. Poisson Distribution

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ASO/MPSO STATISTICS (PAPER-II) SAMPLE QUESTION BANK
17. The value of first quartile is 23 and the inter
quartile range is 20 then the value of third
quartile is _______ ( )
a. 63 b. 53 c. 43 d. 73
18. Considering the standard deviation, the
quartile deviation is equal to ( )
a. 3⁄2 σ b. 2⁄3 σ c. 2μ⁄3 σ d. 4μ⁄3 σ
19. In the formula of sample variance the
Σ(x-x‾) 2 is called ( )
a. total sum of squares
b. total differences of squares
c. multiplier of deviation
d. divisor of mean deviation
20. The data based on workers salary is as
2500, 2700, 2600, 2800, 2200, 2100, 2000,
2900, 3000, 2800, 2200, 2500, 2700, 2800,
2600 and number of classes desired is 10 then
width of class interval is__
a. 400 b. 300 c. 100 d. 200
23. Which of the following statements correctly
describes a difference between the F and t
distributions?
a. The F distribution is discrete, the t
distribution is continuous
b. The t distribution is valid only for positive
numbers, the F for all real values
c. The F distribution is symmetrical, the t
distribution is skewed to the right
d. The F distribution is valid only for positive
numbers, the t for all real values
24.The data and instructions are in _____
form inside the computer the result will be
printed only in ____ system ( )
a. Decimal, Decimal b. Binary, Binary
c.Binary, Decimal d.Decimal, Binary
25. The original programs written in the high
level language is called ( )
a. Object program b.Source program
c.Assembler d.Operating program

21. Which of the following statements is

correct?
a. the pooled-variances t-test is used whenever
the population standard deviations can be
assumed to be equal, regardless of the sample
size
b. the unequal-variances t-test is used whenever
the population standard deviations are
unknown and cannot assumed to be equal
c. the z-test can be used as a close
approximation to the unequal-variances t-test
when the
population standard deviation are not assumed
to be equal but sample sizes are large (typically
greater than 30)
d. all of the above statements are true

22. Which of the following statements regarding

the F distribution is false?
a. The F distribution is skewed to the right
b. The F distribution has two sets of degrees of
freedom
c. The F distribution always has a mean of 1
d. The F distribution is used to test the null
hypothesis that the population variances are
equal
Answers:
1)D 2)A 3)D 4)D 5)B 6) C 7)C 8)B 9)C
10) C 11)A 12)B 13)B 14) B 15)D 16) D 17)C
18)B 19)A 20)C 21)D 22)C 23)D 24)C
25)B

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