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MCQs Basic Statistics 1

This document contains 27 multiple choice questions testing statistical concepts. The questions cover topics like measures of central tendency, measures of variability, types of variables, sampling, and experimental error. The answers to each question are provided at the end.

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MCQs Basic Statistics 1

This document contains 27 multiple choice questions testing statistical concepts. The questions cover topics like measures of central tendency, measures of variability, types of variables, sampling, and experimental error. The answers to each question are provided at the end.

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Question 1: The mean of a distributionis 14 and the standard


deviation is 5. What is the value of the coecientof variation?
A) 60.4%
B) 48.3%
C) 35.7%
D) 27.8%
Question 2: The mean of a distribution is 23, the median is
24, and the mode is 25.5. It is most likely that this distribution
is:
A) Positively Skewed
B) Symmetrical
C) Asymptotic
D) Negatively Skewed
Question 3: Which of the following describe the middle part
of a group of numbers?
A) Measure of Variability
B) Measure of Central Tendency
C) Measure of Association
D) Measure of Shape
Question 4: According to the empirical rule, approximately
what percent of the data should lie within µ ± σ?
A) 75%
B) 68%
C) 95%
D) 99%

Question 5: The sum of the deviations about the mean is


always:
A) Range
B) Zero
C) Total Standard Deviation
D) Positive
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Question 6: The middle value of an ordered array of numbers is
the
A) Mode
B) Mean
C) Median
D) Mid Point
Question 7: Which of the following is not a measure of central
tendency?
A) Percentile
B) Quartile
C) Standard deviation
D) Mode
Question 8: Which of the following divides a group of data
into four subgroups?
A) Percentiles
B) Deciles
C) Median
D) Quartiles
E) Standard Deviation
Question 9: If the standard deviation of a population is 9, the
population variance is:
A) 9
B) 3
C) 21
D) 81
Question 10: If a distribution is abnormally tall and peaked,
then is can be said that the distribution is:
A) leptokurtic
B) pyrokurtic
C) platykurtic
D) mesokurtic
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Question 11: Sum of dots when two dice are rolled is
A) a discrete variable
B) a continuous variable
C) a constant
D) a qualitative variable
Question 12: The weights of students in a college/school is a
A) Discrete Variable
B) Continuous Variable
C) Qualitative Variable
D) None of these
Question 13: The number of accidents in a city during 2010 is
A) Discrete variable
B) Continuous variable
C) Qualitative variable
D) Constant
Question 14: Which of these represent qualitative data
A) Height of a student
B) Liking or disliking of (500) persons of a product
C) Income of a government servant in a city
D) Yield from a wheat plot
Question 15: Life of a T.V picture tube is a
A) Discrete variable
B) Continuous variable
C) Qualitative variable
D) Constant
Question 16: The rst hand and unorganized form of data is
called
A) Secondary data
B) Organized data
C) Primary data
D) None of these
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Question 17: The data which have already been collected by
some one are called
A) Raw data
B) Array data
C) Secondary data
D) Fictitious data
Question 18: Census reports used as a source of data is
A) Primary source
B) secondary source
C) Organized data
D) none
Question 19: The grouped data is also called
A) Raw data
B) Primary data
C) Secondary data
D) Qualitative data
Question 20: Primary data and - data are same
A) Grouped
B) Secondary data
C) Ungrouped
D) None of these
Question 21: Questionnaire survey method is used to collect
A) Secondary data
B) Qualitative variable
C) Primary data
D) None of these
Question 22: Data collected by NADRA to issue computerized
identity cards (CICs) are
A) Unocial data
B) Qualitative data
C) Secondary data
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D) Primary data
E) None of these
Question 23: Population census is conducted through
A) Sample survey
B) Accounting
C) Investigation
D) Complete enumeration
Question 24: A parameter is a measure which is computed
from
A) Population data
B) Sample data
C) Test statistics
D) None of these
Question 25: Given X = 12, X = 19, X = 10, X = 7, then
equals?
1 2 3 4
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P
Xi=1

A) 36
B) 48
C) 41
D) 29
E) None of these
Question 26: A chance variation in an observational process is
A) Dispersion/ Variability
B) Measurement error
C) Random error
D) Instrument error
Question 27: A constant variable can take values
A) Zero
B) Fixed
C) Not xed
D) Nothing

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Answers
1) C 2) D 3) B 4)C 5) B
6) C 7) C 8) D 9) D 10) A
11) A 12) B 13) A 14) B 15) B
16) C 17) C 18) B 19) C 20) C
21) C 22) D 23) D 24) A 25) B
26) C 27) B

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