STATISTICS

KSAAD PRELIMS(AC & AO)

1. Which of the following are methods under measures of dispersion?
a. Standard deviation
b. Mean deviation
c. Range
d. All of the above
2. While calculating the standard deviation, the deviations are only taken from ____
a. The mode value of a series
b. The median value of a series
c. The quartile value of a series
d. The mean value of a series
3.The coefficient of variation is a percentage expression for __________.
a. Standard deviation
b. Quartile deviation
c. Mean deviation
d. None of the above
4. ____________ and ____________ are types of measures of dispersion.
a. Nominal, Real
b. Nominal, Relative
c. Real, Relative
d. Absolute, Relative
5. The numerical value of a standard deviation can never be _________.
a. Negative
b. Zero
c. Larger than the variance
d. None of the above
6. The average of squared deviations from the arithmetic mean is known as ___
a. Quartile deviation
b. Standard deviation
c. Variance
d. None of the above
7. Which of the following measures of dispersion can attain a negative value?
a. Mean deviation
b. Range
c. Standard deviation
d. None of the above
8. The range represents _________.
a. The lowest number
b. The highest number
c. The middle number
d. The difference between the lowest and highest number
9. An example of the application of range in a real-world scenario would be
_
a. Fluctuation in share prices
b. Weather forecasts
c. Quality control
d. All of the above
10. the measurements of spread or scatter of the individual values around
the central point is called:
(a) Measures of dispersion
(b) Measures of central tendency
(c) Measures of skewness
(d) Measures of kurtosis
11. The range of the scores 29, 3, 143, 27, 99 is:
(a) 140 (b) 143 (c) 146 (d) 70
12. If the observations of a variable X are, -4, -20, -30, -44 and -36, then
the value of the range will be:
(a) -48 (b) 40 (c) -40 (d) 48
13. If the maximum value in a series is 25 and its range is 15, the maximum
value of the series is:
(a) 10 (b) 15 (c) 25 (d) 35
14. Half of the difference between upper and lower quartiles is called:
(a) Interquartile range
(b) Quartile deviation
(c) Mean deviation
(d) Standard deviation
15. If Q3=20 and Q1=10, the coefficient of quartile deviation is:
(a) 3 (b) 1/3 (c) 2/3 (d) 1
16. The mean deviation of the scores 12, 15, 18 is:
(a) 6 (b) 0 (c) 3 (d) 2
17. The range limit can be expressed as
a) R=L+S B) R-L+S2 C) R=L-S d) None of these
18. co-efficient of range can be calculated as
a) L+S/LXS B) L+S/L-S C) L-S/L+S D) LXS/L+S
19. Calculate the value of variance if median-23, Mode=29 and co-efficient of
variation is 50%
a) 100 b) 10 c) 90 d) 80
20. Compute the co-efficient of range from the following date
91,54,44,56,71,25,09,27,72,62
a) 0.79 b) 0.82 c) 0.85 d) 0.76
1.Calculate standard deviation of ungrouped data of marks of students which are
given below. 85,65, 55,42,69,83,92,77
a) 31.26 b)244.25 c)15.63 d) None of
the above
2. The mean of a distribution is 22 and the standard deviation is 10. what is the
value of a variance co-efficient?
a) 45.45% b) 35.35% c) 25.25% d) 55.55%
3. Find the variance of 42, 24,32,64,68
a) 312.4 b) 300.8 c) 306.6 d) 308.2
4. The mean of a distribution is 24 and the standard deviation is 6. what is the
value of a variance co-efficient?
a) 50% b) 25% c) 100% d) 75%
5. For a positively skewed distribution, mean is always:
a. Less than the median
b. Less than the mode
c. Greater than the mode
d. Difficult to tell
6. Bowley's coefficient of skewness lies between:
a. 0 and 1
b. 1 and +1
c. -1 and 0
d. -2 and +2
7. The measure of dispersion which uses only two observations is
called:
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Range
d. Coefficient of variation
8. The standard deviation one distribution dividedly the mean of
the distribution and expressing in percentage is called:
a. Coefficient of Standard deviation
b. Coefficient of skewness
c. Coefficient of quartile deviation
D. Coefficient of variation
9. In a symmetrical distribution, the coefficient of skewness will be:
a. 0
b. Q1
c. Q3
d. 1
10. The mean deviation is minimum when deviations are taken from:
a. Mean
b. Mode
c. Median
d. Zero
11. The sum of squares of the deviations is minimum, when deviations are taken from:
a. Mean
b. Mode
c. Median
d. Zero
12. If mean=50, mode=40 and standard deviation=5, the distribution is:
a. Positively skewed
b. Negatively skewed
c. Symmetrical
d. Difficult to tell
13. In case of positively skewed distribution, the extreme values lie in the:
a. Middle
b. Left tail
c. Right tail
d. Anywhere
14. The lack of uniformity or symmetry is called:
a. Skewness
b. Dispersion
c. Kurtosis
d. Standard deviation
15. If Mode> Mean then it is
a) Positive Skewness
b) Negative Skewness
c) Standard deviation
d) Kurtosis
16. What is the third measure of moment’s measure of skewness
a) Variance
b) Mode
c) Mean
d) Skewness
17. Which of the following measures peakdness
a) Variance
b) Mode
c) Kurtosis
d) Skewness
18. Which of the following has highest peak and all the observations
are closer to mean?
a) Mesokurtic
b) Leptrokurtic
c) Platykurtic
d) Skewness
19. What is the range of kurtosis?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
20. Which of the following has value of Kurtosis i.e., β2 < 3
A. Mesokurtic B. Leptokurtic C. Platykurtic D. Skewness