Practice assignment 1.

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1) Values of temperature and humidity of a room are measured for 24 hours at a regular time interval of 30
minutes. Based on this, choose the correct option from below:

It is a cross-sectional data.

It is time series data.

None of the above.

Feedback:

Since the temperature and humidity are recorded over a period of time at regular inter- vals, the data collected is
time series data.

Accepted Answers:

It is time series data.

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2) In the 2011 Cricket ODI World Cup quarter-final match between India and Australia, a media organization
estimated that Australia would beat India by 50 runs if Australia bats first, based on the information of
matches played between the two teams previously. Which branch of statistics does the above analysis
belong to?

Descriptive Statistics

Inferential Statistics

Feedback:

Making predictions from the data comes under inferential statistics. Here, media makes prediction based on the
information it has about the matches played between two teams previously; therefore, given analysis belongs to
inferential statistics.

Accepted Answers:

Inferential Statistics

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3) What is the scale of measurement for the amount of money you have?

Nominal

Ordinal

Ratio

Interval

Feedback:

Amount of money can have a meaningful interval. It also has an absolute zero. Hence, it comes under the ratio
scale of measurement.

Accepted Answers:
Ratio

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4) Which of the following mathematical operation(s) can be performed on interval variables?

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Feedback:

Addition and subtraction can be performed on variables with interval scale of measurement as they have a
definite difference between them but multiplication and subtraction upon these variables is not possible because
difference between them is not comparable; moreover, they do not have absolute zero.

Accepted Answers:

Addition
Subtraction

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5) For the conclusions made through inferential statistics to be correct, which of the following statement/s should
be valid?

Sample should not be randomly selected.

Sample should be randomly selected.

Sample should be a representative of population.

Sample should not be a representative of population.

Feedback:

Sample should be randomly selected so that conclusions made on population will be correct and not biased.
Sample should be representative of the population, that is, it should be unbiased and should represent all the
distinct properties of population.

Accepted Answers:

Sample should be randomly selected.

Sample should be a representative of population.

6) What is the scale of measurement for the military titles - Major, Captain, Colonel?

Nominal

Ordinal

Ratio

Interval
 Feedback:

Military titles have a definite rank but they do not have numeric properties; therefore, they have ordinal scale of
measurement.

Accepted Answers:

Ordinal

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7) Which of the following variables has (have) ratio scale of measurement?

Temperature in Kelvin

Temperature in Centigrade

Year

Angle measured in degrees

Targeted Feedback:

 Temperature in Kelvin has ratio scale of measurement because temperature has meaningful intervals and it also
has absolute zero.
 Angles in degree has ratio scale of measurement as we can compare the intervals or differences between
different angles and it also has absolute zero.

Accepted Answers:

Temperature in Kelvin

Angle measured in degrees

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8) In a general election that happened in Guntur, 100100% of the registered voters in the constituency
participated in the election. The winner is decided to be independent candidate, Sudhakar, as he got
nearly 6060% of the votes. What kind of statistical analysis can be done using this data?

Inferential Statistics

Descriptive Statistics

Feedback:

All the registered voters participated in the election. It is summarized from the votes that Sudhakar got 60% of the
votes and won the election. We are not drawing conclusions but just summarizing the data. So, it is descriptive
statistics.

Accepted Answers:

Descriptive Statistics

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9) Choose the correct statement/s from the following:

 Revenue generated by India through tea exports to 1010 different countries in year 20102010 is a cross-
sectional data.

Revenue generated by India through tea exports to 1010 different countries in year 20102010 is a time-series
data.

Revenue generated by India during the period 20002000-20102010 is a time-series data.

Revenue generated by India during the period 20002000-20102010 is a cross-sectional data.

Yes, the answer is correct.

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Targeted Feedback:

 Revenue generated by India from 10 different countries through tea exports in year 2010 is a cross-sectional
data: The data is collected from different countries to whom the tea exports is done in year 2010. Year 2010 is a
specific point of time in years. So, it is cross-sectional data. There- fore, option a is correct and option b is
incorrect.
 Revenue generated by India during the period 2000-2010 on yearly basis is a time-series data. The data is
collected from 2000 to 2010 about the revenue generated by India on yearly basis. Year 2000 to 2010 is a span
of time. Here time is varying. So, it is time-series data. Therefore, option c is correct and option d is incorrect.

Accepted Answers:

Revenue generated by India through tea exports to 1010 different countries in year 20102010 is a cross-sectional
data.

Revenue generated by India during the period 20002000-20102010 is a time-series data.

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10) A quality engineer wants to check the quality of steel rods produced in a steel factory. For this, 40 pieces of
steel rods are randomly selected from the steel factory to assess their quality. Based on this, choose the
correct option below:

The population is all steel rods produced in all factories; the sample is the 40 steel rods selected from the
given steel factory’s production.

The population is all steel rods produced in all factories; the sample is all the steel rods produced in the
given steel factory.

The population is all steel rods produced in the given steel factory; the sample is the 40 steel rods selected
from the given steel factory’s production.

All the steel rods in the given steel factory are population; the sample is all steel rods in the given steel
factory.

Feedback:

By definition, population is the entire collection of elements we are interested in. Here, the engineer wants to
check the quality of steel rods produced in the given steel factory. Hence, population will be all steel rods
produced in the given factory. Sample is a subset of the population which is being studied. Since the engineer is
studying only a set of 40 rods collected from that factory, the sample is the set of 40 selected steel rods. Options
A and B are wrong as the engineer is interested only in the given factory’s rods and not of all factories’.
 Accepted Answers:

The population is all steel rods produced in the given steel factory; the sample is the 40 steel rods selected from
the given steel factory’s production.

11) Values of temperature and humidity of a room are measured for 24 hours at a regular time interval of 30
minutes. Based on this, choose the correct option from below:

It is a cross-sectional data.

It is time series data.

None of the above.

Feedback:

Since the temperature and humidity are recorded over a period of time at regular inter- vals, the data collected is
time series data.

Accepted Answers:

It is time series data.

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12) Which of the following is(are) numerical variable(s)?

Height(cm)

Day of the week

Jersey number of sports player

Mobile number

Email address

Age in years

Targeted Feedback:

 Since height has numeric properties and can have arithmetic operations performed on it, it follows that height is a
numerical variable.
 Age has numeric property and we can perform arithmetic operations on age.For instance, we can calculate
average age of a group of people. Hence, it is a numerical variable.

Accepted Answers:

Height(cm)

Age in years
 13) A mobile manufacturing company received feedback from customers complaining mobiles bought were
defective. To confirm this, the company randomly selected 100100 mobile phones from the total mobile
phones and checked for defectiveness of mobiles. Which of the following options is/are correct?

Inferential Statistics can be done using this data.

Descriptive Statistics can be done using this data.

Randomly selected 100 mobile phones is sample.

Randomly selected 100 mobile phones is population.

All mobile phones manufactured in company is population.

All mobile phones manufactured in company is sample.

Feedback:

The population is all the mobile phones manufactured in company as it is all the elements of interest. The sample
is 100 mobile phones selected, as these are elements on which the statistical study is being done. Inferential
statistics is done on this data as we are going to conclude about all mobile phones manufactured in the company
using the sample of 100 mobile phones. Descriptive statistics can be done on sample. That is if you are using
sample to sum- marize about sample, the study is descriptive statistics. Hence, options a, b c, and e are correct.

Accepted Answers:

Inferential Statistics can be done using this data.

Descriptive Statistics can be done using this data.

Randomly selected 100100 mobile phones is sample.

All mobile phones manufactured in company is population.

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14) Which of the following variable/s have nominal scale of measurement?

Shirt size

Aadhar card number

PAN card number

Passenger Name Reservation (PNR) number

Vegetables

Targeted Feedback:

 Aadhar card number is a categorical variable, there is no particular order in the aadhar card numbers. One
aadhar card number is not greater than or lesser than another aadhar card number. So, it has nominal scale of
measurement. Hence, option b is correct.
 PAN card number, PNR numbers too are categorical variables, there is not particular order among PAN card
numbers. So, they have nominal scale. Hence, options c and d are correct.
 PAN card number, PNR numbers too are categorical variables, there is not particular order among PAN card
numbers. So, they have nominal scale. Hence, options c and d are correct.
 Names of the vegetables: There is no particular order in vegetables. Potatoes are not greater than tomatoes. Or
chilli is not greater than onions. So, names of vegetables has nominal scale of measurement. Hence, option e is
correct.

Accepted Answers:

Aadhar card number

PAN card number

Passenger Name Reservation (PNR) number

Vegetables