A3 Nptel
A3 Nptel
Accept H0
Reject H0
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Accept H0
1 point
A box contains 8 items out of which 2 are defective. A sample of 5 items is to be
selected randomly (without replacement) from the box. If the random variable X
represents the number of defective items in a selection of 5 items, then find E(X)
.(Enter the answer correct to 2 decimal places)
1.25
5
0.4
1.3
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
1.25
1 point
Suppose X∼
Normal(μ
, 9). For n=100
iid samples of X
, the observed sample mean is 11.8
. What conclusion would a z
-test reach if the null hypothesis assumes μ=10.5
(against an alternative hypothesis μ≠10.5
)?
Accept H0
at a significance level of 0.10
.
Reject H0
at a significance level of 0.10
.
Accept H0
at a significance level of 0.05
.
Reject H0
at a significance level of 0.05
.
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Reject H0
at a significance level of 0.10
.
Reject H0
at a significance level of 0.05
.
1 point
Let X
and Y
be two independent random variables with Var(X
) = 9 and Var(Y
) = 3, find Var(4X
− 2Y
+ 6).
100
140
156
None of the above
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
156
0 points
The correlation coefficient of two random variable X
and Y
is 14, their variance is given by 3 and 5. Compute Cov(X,Y
).
-0.854
0.561
-0.968
None of the above
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
-0.968
1 point
When will you reject the Null hypothesis?
p
value greater than α
p
value less than α
p
value equal to α
None of the above
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
p
value less than α
1 point
A sample of N
observations are independently drawn from a normal distribution. The sample
variance follows
Normal distribution
Chi-square with N
degrees of freedom
Chi-square with N
− 1 degrees of freedom
t
-distribution with N
− 1 degrees of freedom
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Chi-square with N
− 1 degrees of freedom
1 point
A car manufacturer purchases car batteries from two different suppliers. Supplier X
provides 55% of the batteries and supplier Y provides the rest. 5% of all
batteries from supplier X
are defective and 4% of all batteries from supplier Y
are defective. You select a battery from the bulk and you found it to be
defective. What is the probability that it is from Supplier X
?
0.0455
0.455
0.604
0.018
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
0.604
1 point
Which one of the following is best measure of central tendency for categorical
data?
Mean
Median
Mode
None of the above
Yes, the answer is correct.
Score: 1
Accepted Answers:
Mode