Question Bank

1. Notes on skewness and Kurtosis with your own example.

2. Notes on Standard deviation and Coefficient of variation.
3. Distinguish between Correlation and Regression.
4. Explain about graphical method of Correlation.
5. What do you mean ANOVA.
6. Write the ANOVA table and explain the involved terms.
Problems:
1. Find the value of quartile deviation and its coefficient from the following
data:
Roll No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Marks 20 28 40 12 30 15 50

2. Compute coefficient of quartile deviation from the following data: 275

Marks 10 20 30 40 50 60
No of 4 7 15 8 7 2
students

3. Calculate quartile deviation and its coefficient from the following data:
Wages Less 35-37 38-40 41-43 Over 43
in .000 than 35
No of 14 62 99 18 7
workers

4. Find the interquartile range and the coefficient of quartile deviation from the
following data:
Marks in 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 60-80
Statistics
No of 10 40 20 0 10 40 16 14
Students

5. Calculate the mean deviation and its coefficient of the two groups of five-
and seven-members using median given below:
Gr-I 4000 4200 4400 4600 4800 6 7
Gr-II 3000 4000 4200 4400 4600 4800 5800
 6. Find the mean deviation using median from the following data:
Size Frequency Size Frequency
0-10 7 40-50 16
10-20 12 50-60 14
20-30 18 60-70 8
30-40 25

7. Calculate the mean deviation and its coefficient from the following data:
Class Frequency Size Frequency
0-10 5 40-50 20
10-20 8 50-60 14
20-30 12 60-70 12
30-40 15 70-80 6

8. Calculate the standard deviation from the following observations:

240.12, 240.13, 240.15, 240.12, 240.17, 240.15, 240.17, 240.16, 240.22, 240.21
9. The annual salaries of a group of employees are given in the following table:
Salaries 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80
(in 000)
No. of 3 5 8 7 9 7 4 7
persons
Calculate the standard deviation of the salaries.
10. Calculate mean and standard deviation of the following deviation of the following
frequency distribution of marks:
Marks No. of Students Marks No. of Students
0-10 5 40-50 50
10-20 12 50-60 37
20-30 30 60-70 21
30-40 45

11. Find the standard deviation from the following data;

Age 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
under
No. of 15 30 53 75 100 110 115 125
persons
 12. Find the standard deviation of the following distribution:
Age 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50
No. of 170 110 80 45 40 35
Persons

13. From the prices of a commodities of X and Y below find out which is more stable in
value:
X 35 54 52 53 56 58 52 5 51 49
Y 108 107 105 105 106 107 104 103 104 101

14. Calculate Pearson’s coefficient of skewness of the given data:

X 12.5 17.5 22.5 27.5 32.5 37.5 42.5 47.5
f 28 42 54 108 129 61 45 33

15. Calculate Pearson’s coefficient of skewness of the following data:

Profits (in lakhs) No. of companies Profits (in lakhs) No. of companies
70-80 12 110-120 50
80-90 18 120-130 45
90-100 35 130-140 30
100-110 42 140-150 8

16. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of skewness to the following:

Variable Frequency Variable Frequency
70-80 11 30-40 21
60-70 22 20-30 11
50-60 30 10-20 6
40-50 35 0-10 5

17. From the following data calculate the Measure of skewness using mean, median and
standard deviation.
X 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
f 18 30 40 55 38 20 16

18. From the following data calculate the Measure of skewness using mean, median and
standard deviation.
Mid- 14.5 15.5 16.5 17.5 18.5 19.5 20.5 21.5
Value
Frequency 35 40 48 100 125 87 43 22
 19. Find the Bowley’s coefficient of skewness for the following frequency distribution:339
No. of children 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
per family
No. of families 7 10 16 25 18 11 8

20. Calculate the Coefficient of skewness based on quartile and median from the following
data:339
Variable Frequency Variable Frequency
0-10 12 40-50 22
10-20 16 50-60 15
20-30 26 60-70 7
30-40 38 70-80 4

21. Calculate the relative measure of Kurtosis and identify it whether it is leptokurtic or
Mesokurtic or Platykurtic for the following data:
3, 5, 3, 5, 10, 5, 15, 10, 12, 12.
22. Compute the coefficient of kurtosis based on the following data:
X 4.5 14.5 24.5 34.5 44.5 54.5 64.5 74.5 84.5 94.5
f 1 5 12 22 17 9 4 3 1 1

Correlation & Regression:

23. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation from the following data and
interpret its value.
Roll no. of 1 2 3 4 5
Students
Mark in Python 48 35 17 23 47

Marks in 45 20 40 25 45
Statistics

24. Making the use of the following data, calculate the coefficient of correlation.
Case X1 X2 Case X1 X2
A 10 9 E 12 11
B 6 4 F 13 13
C 9 6 G 11 8
D 10 9 H 9 4

25. In the following table gives indices of industrial production of registered unemployed
(in hundred thousand). Calculate the value of coefficient of correlation.
 Year: 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Index of 100 102 104 107 105 112 103 99

production:
Number 15 12 13 11 12 12 19 26
unemployed:

26. Calculate coefficient of correlation from the following data:

X 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

Y 30 50 60 80 100 110 130

27. The ranking of 10 students in two subjects such as Statistics and Basics in computer
are given below. Calculate rank correlation coefficient.
A 6 5 3 10 2 4 9 7 8 1

B 3 8 4 9 1 6 10 7 5 2

28. Two ladies were asked to rank 7 different types of lipsticks. The ranks given by them
are as follows:
Lipsticks A B C D E F G

Reena 2 1 4 3 5 7 6
Saina 1 2 2 4 5 6 7

29. Calculate Spearman’s coefficient of correlation between marks assigned to ten

students by judges X and Y in a certain competitive test as shown below:409
S. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Marks by 52 53 42 60 45 41 37 38 25 27
Judge X
Marks by 65 68 43 38 77 48 35 30 25 50
Judge Y
 30. Calculate the coefficient of correlation from the following data by the Spearman’s
Rank difference method:410
Price of Tea Price of Price of Tea Price of
(in Rs) Coffee (Rs) (in Rs) Coffee
(Rs)
75 120 60 110
88 134 80 140
95 150 81 142
70 115 50 100

31. Obtain the rank correlation coefficient between the variable X and Y from the
following pairs of observed values.
X 50 55 65 50 55 60 50 65 70 75

Y 110 110 115 125 140 115 130 120 115 160

32. From the following data obtain the regression equation Y on X

X 6 2 10 4 8

Y 9 11 5 8 7

33. From the following data obtain the regression equation X on Y

X 6 2 10 4 8

Y 9 11 5 8 7

34. Given the following data, find the regression equation of Y on X

X 2 3 4 5 6

Y 7 9 10 14 15