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Short Assignment 1

This document provides instructions for a short assignment on probability and distributions. It contains 10 multiple choice questions about statistical concepts. Students are asked to choose the best answer for each question and submit their responses by a deadline to receive a mark.

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STAT S151F
Probability & Distributions
2021-22 Presentation
Short Assignment 1
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Student Name: ___________________________ Student ID: ______________ Mark: ______

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Instructions:

1. Answer ALL questions.

2. Deadline for submission: 11:59pm, 22 February 2022.

3. Details of calculations must be written clearly.

4. Clarity of answers and solutions is a must.

5. The total mark of this assignment is 10, accounting for 4% of the total mark of the course.

6. Scan this cover page with your name, student ID together with the filled answer table in
point 9 below and then submit it through OLE.

7. No late submission will be accepted.

8. Plagiarism from any sources including your classmates is strictly prohibited, and you will
get zero mark without notice.

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9. Write down your answers in the table below:

Question No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Answer
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MC Questions (10 marks)

Instructions:

1. Choose the best answer from each question below.


2. Each question carries 1 mark.
2. Only one answer is correct.
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(1) Which one of the following is a type of ordinal data?

A. Length
B. Educational attainment
C. Gender
D. Number of “likes” in Facebook

(2) Cluster sampling can be used when

A. Population size is unknown.


B. Population elements are evenly distributed.
C. Population can be divided into several non-overlapping groups according to some well-
defined variables such as gender, geographical areas, professions, etc.
D. Travelling expense is the researcher’s concern.

(3) Bar chart can be used as a graphical tool to describe which one of the following types of data?

A. Discrete data
B. Continuous data
C. Qualitative/categorical data
D. All of the above

(4) Which one of the following statements 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 statistic can be used to estimate a parameter.
C. A parameter is used to estimate a statistic.
D. A parameter has a sampling distribution that can be used to determine what values the
statistic is likely to have in repeated samples.
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(5) Simple random sampling (SRS) can be used when

A. The population size is unknown.


B. The population elements are evenly distributed.
C. The population can be divided into several non-overlapping groups according to some well-
defined variables such as gender, geographical areas, professions, etc.
D. The travelling expense, administration, and time are the researcher’s concern.

(6) Which one of the following is NOT a type of descriptive statistics?

A. Population size of Hong Kong in 2015


B. Mean monthly household income in Hong Kong, 2015
C. A ratio of males to females of all Hong Kong residents
D. A proportion or percentage for supporting Mrs. Lam, the Chief Executive of HKSAR, from
an opinion poll based on 1000 Hong Kong residents randomly selected from the whole
population of Hong Kong

(7) Which one of the following is NOT a reason for conducting a sample survey?

A. The nature of sampling may result in the unit’s destruction.


B. The population may be infinite in size.
C. It can save money, time, and labor.
D. The results obtained from a sample are more accurate than those from the whole
population.

(8) Pie chart can be used as a graphical tool to describe which of the following data?

A. Discrete data
B. Continuous data
C. Qualitative/categorical data
D. All kinds of data
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(9) There are 4 wards in a private hospital. The numbers of patients in the wards are shown below:

Ward Name Number of Patients


Surgery 50
Internal Medicine 167
Paediatrics 89
Dermatology 506

A medical sample survey about the services offered by the hospital will be conducted. Which one
of the sampling method is the most appropriate to get accurate survey results?

A. Simple random sampling


B. Stratified random sampling
C. Cluster Sampling
D. Systematic sampling

(10) Which one of the following belongs to the interval scale of measurement?

A. Your age
B. Age of the Earth
C. Time
D. Gender

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