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DPT 8th Semester Proposed paper Final-Term Examination

(Biostatistics- II)
Roll No.____________ Name__________________________

Total time Allowed: 45 min Total Marks: 35

Encircle the best answer, Cutting & Overwriting will be considered as wrong.

1. A _________ is an assumption about a population parameter

a. Statistical hypothesis
b. Industrial hypothesis
c. Experimental hypothesis
d. None of the above
2. Which of the following statement best describes the relationship between a parameter and
a statistic
a. A parameter has a sampling distribution with the statistic as its mean.
b. A parameter has a sampling distribution that can be used to determine what values
the statistic is likely to have in repeated sample
c. A parameter is used to estimate a statistic
d. A statistic is used to estimate a parameter
3. A sampling distribution is the probability distribution for which one of the following
a. A sample
b. A sample statistic
c. A population
d. A population parameter
4. A decision making process for evaluating claims about a population.
a. Hypothesis testing
b. A sample calculation
c. Test analysis
d. None of the above
5. In statistical hypothesis testing, following are hypotheses type/s
a. Null Hypothesis
b. Alternate Hypothesis
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
6. __________ states that there is no difference between a population parameter and sample
statistic.
a. Null Hypothesis
b. Alternate Hypothesis
 c. Both a and b
d. None of the above
7. The null hypothesis states that there is no difference between a population mean and a
_________.
a. Statistics mean
b. Sample mean
c. Both of them
d. All of the above
8. __________ States the existence of a difference between a population parameter and
sample statistic.
a. Null Hypothesis
b. Alternate Hypothesis
c. Both of them
d. None of the above
9. When a researcher conducts a study, he or she is generally looking for evidence to
support a claim. Therefore, the claim should be stated as the ______
a. Null hypothesis
b. Alternative hypothesis
c. Both of them
d. None of the above
10. A ________ error occurs if you reject the null hypothesis when it is true
a. type I
b. type II
c. both of them
d. none of the above
11. If the defendant is convicted but he or she did not commit the crime, then a type I error
has been committed.
a. type II
b. type I
c. Correct decision
d. None of the above
12. If the defendant is convicted and he or she has committed the crime, then a ___________
has been made.
a. type II
b. type I
c. Correct decision
d. None of the above
13. If the defendant is acquitted and he or she did not commit the crime, a ________ has been
made by the jury.
a. correct decision
b. type II
 c. type I
d. none of them
14. If the defendant is acquitted and he or she did commit the crime, then a __________ error
has been made.
a. correct decision
b. type II
c. type I
d. none of them
15. _____________ is a numerical description of how likely an event is to occur, or how
likely it is that a preposition is true.
a. Randomization
b. Probability
c. Type I error
d. Sampling
16. ________ is the ratio of the number of ways the specified event can occur to the total
number of equally likely events that can occur.
a. Probability
b. Type I error
c. Statistical test
d. None of the above
17. Which of the following is the most common example of a situation for which the main
parameter of interest is a population proportion
a. A normal experiment
b. A binomial experiment
c. A random experiment
d. An observational experiment
18. The probability of an event P (E), can be defined as the ________ of times a favorable
event will occur in a long series of repeated trails
a. Ratio
b. Product
c. Proportion
d. None of the above
19. Two events are said to be ___________ when one event occurs if and only if the other
does not.
a. Probability
b. Complementary
c. Type I error
d. None of the above
20. A ___________ is a type of inferential statistic used to determine if there is a significant
difference between the means of two groups, which may be related in certain features
a. Z-test
 b. t-test
c. ANOVA
d. None of them
21. Branches of statistics includes
a. Descriptive statistic
b. Inferential statistics
c. Industry statistics
d. Both a and b
22. The difference between the z-test and the t-test is in the assumption of the ___________
σ of the underlying normal distribution. A z-test assumes that σ is known; a t-test does
not.
a. Standard error
b. Standard deviation
c. Mean variation
d. All of them
23. A ______ must compute an estimate s of the standard deviation from the sample.
a. Z-test
b. t-test
c. ANOVA
d. All of them
24. In statistics, _______ are used to determine if a data set is well-modeled by a normal
distribution and to compute how likely it is for a random variable underlying the data set
to be normally distributed.
a. Normality tests
b. Statistical tests
c. Mean variation
d. Standard deviation
25. Graphical and numerical methods are specialized process utilized in
a. Education statistics
b. Descriptive statistics
c. Business statistics
d. Social statistics
26. The ___________ determines whether the sample mean is statistically different from a
known or hypothesized population mean. 
a. Paired sample t-test
b. One Sample t Test
c. ANOVA test
d. Z-Score
27. The one sample t-test has following main assumptions:
a. The dependent variable must be continuous (interval/ratio).
b. The observations are independent of one another.
 c. The dependent variable should be approximately normally distributed
d. All off the above
28. If the x1, x2, x3 …… xn are the observations of a given data. Than the mean of the
observation will be
a. Total number of observation/sum of observation
b. Sum of observation/total number of observation
c. Sum of observation + total number of observation
d. None of the above
29. The __________ compares the means of two independent groups in order to determine
whether there is statistical difference between them.
a. One sample t-test
b. Paired sample t-test
c. Independent Samples t Test
d. Z-Score

30. Independent observations often hold if _____ case in SPSS represents a different person
or other statistical unit.
a. Each
b. Every Nth
c. Random
d. None of them

31. _________ is only needed for samples smaller than some 25 units.
a. Homogeneity
b. Normality
c. Both of them
d. None of them

32. _________ , We only need this assumption if our sample sizes are (sharply) unique.
a. Homogeneity
b. Normality
c. Both of them
d. None of them
33. The ______________ compares two means that are from the same individual, object, or
related units, The two means typically represent two different times (e.g., pre-test and
post-test with an intervention between the two time points) or two different but related
conditions or units (e.g., left and right ears, twins).
 a. Paired Samples t Test
b. One sample t-test
c. Independent sample t-test
d. None of them
34. Main assumptions of the paired sample t-test is /are:
a. The dependent variable must be continuous (interval/ratio).
b. The observations are independent of one another.
c. The dependent variable should be approximately normally distributed.
d. The dependent variable should not contain any outliers
e. All of them
35. All of the following are the application of t-test except
a. Size of sample is smaller than 30
b. Use when parameter of population is normal
c. Used when correlation coefficient of population is not zero
d. None of them
Key :

1. A
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. C
6. A
7. B
8. B
9. B
10. A
11. B
12. C
13. A
14. A
15. B
16. A
17. B
18. C
19. B
20. B
21. D
22. B
23. B
24. A
25. B
26. B
27. D
28. B
29. C
30. A
31. B
32. A
33. A
34. E
35. C