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Statistics Interview Questions

This document lists statistics and probability topics that are commonly asked about in data science interviews, along with examples of questions asked on each topic. Some of the most frequently covered topics include probability theory, sampling theory, hypothesis testing, distribution theory, and time series analysis. Specific questions asked assess knowledge of concepts like the central limit theorem, normal distributions, experimental design, and analyzing sample survey data.

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Statistics Interview Questions

This document lists statistics and probability topics that are commonly asked about in data science interviews, along with examples of questions asked on each topic. Some of the most frequently covered topics include probability theory, sampling theory, hypothesis testing, distribution theory, and time series analysis. Specific questions asked assess knowledge of concepts like the central limit theorem, normal distributions, experimental design, and analyzing sample survey data.

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STATISTICS

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

ASKED IN DATA
SCIENCE
INTERVIEWS

Nitin Mukesh
Commonly Asked Topics

Probability Theory
Sampling Theory
Hypothesis Testing
Distribution Theory
Time series Analysis
Design of Experiment

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NitinMukesh
Mukesh
Prove E(x+y)=E(x) + E(y) (Delhivery)
What strong and weak stationarity? (ICICI
Securities)
Explain ARIMA forecasting step by step. (ICICI
Securities)
What is CLT, z-test, t-test, F test? (ICICI Securities)
When is a t-test used instead of a z-test? (ICICI
Securities)
What do you mean by Replication and
Randomization? (IPSOS MMA)
Trick question on the application of chi-square
test. (ICICI Securities)
Test of equality of proportions. (ICICI Securities)
Structure of a box plot. (ICICI Lombard)
What does correlation mean? What type of
relationship can be found by this? (ANZ Bank)
What is the importance of stationarity in a time
series? (ANZ Bank)
What is skewness in data and how will you remove
it? (LafargeHolcim)
Role of R squared, r, F test in determining features
in Machine learning.
What is stationary time series and why it is
important? (Cognizant)
Define Randomised Block design? Where do we
use RBD? (Cognizant) Nitin Mukesh
What is stratified random sampling and how it is
different from systematic random sampling?
(Cognizant)
What is the p-value? Explain with the help of an
example related to marketing research. (IPSOS
MMA)
What are the assumptions of ANOVA? (JSS, ANZ)
explain CRD (Completely Randomized Design)?
(IPSOS MMA)
What is AB testing? (ICICI Securities)
Consider two fair dice that have been rolled. What
is the probability of obtaining sum 8?(IPSOS MMA)
The lengths of a professor's classes have a
continuous uniform distribution between 50.0 min
and 52.0 min. If one such class is randomly
selected, find the probability that the class length
is more than 51.7 min. (64squares)
Difference between stratified and cluster sampling.
(JSS)
When we use censoring and what are type-1 and
type-2 censoring in Reliability. (JSS)
ANOVA is generally used when we want to test the
significance of the difference between more than
two independent sample means. Why we don’t use
pairwise t-test in this case? (JSS, Accenture)
Nitin Mukesh
What are type-1 error and p-value in inference?
(JSS, Accenture)
What do you mean by hypothesis testing? (Eli Lilly)
There are 3 ants sitting on three corners of a
triangle. All ants randomly pick a direction and
start moving along the edge of the triangle. What is
the probability that any two ants collide?
(Accenture, Delhivery)
You have 9 red balls and 1 black ball in a bag. You
are picking balls 10 times with replacement. What
is the probability of getting at least one black ball
from the bag? (Accenture)
Explain Central Limit Theorem. (ANZ, Wipro)
What is the normal distribution and what is the
shape of the curve? (WNS Global)
What is the relationship between media, mode and
mean in positively skewed data? (ANZ)
What are statistic and data science? (ANZ)
You have to estimate the average height of the
population of India, how will you go about it? (ICICI
Lombard)
What is the use of binomial distribution and its
PMF? (Wipro)
What do you mean by selection bias? (Wipro)

*** Nitin Mukesh

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