1. Which one of the following variables is not categorical?

a) Age of a person
b) Gender of a person: male or female.
c) Choice on a test item: true or false.
d) Marital status of a person (single, married, divorced, other)

2. A list of 5 pulse rates is: 70, 64, 80, 74, 92. What is the median for this list?
a) 74
b) 76
c) 77
d) 80

3. Which of the following would indicate that a dataset is not bell-shaped?

a) The range is equal to 5 standard deviations.
b) The range is larger than the interquartile range
c) The mean is much smaller than the median
d) There are no outliers.

4. What is variance of the data set: 2, 10, 1, 9, and 3?

a) 15.5
b) 17.5
c) 5.5
d) 7.5

5. The scatter in a series of values about the average is called:

a) Central tendency
b) Dispersion
c) Skewness
d) Symmetry

6. 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

7. The degree to which numerical data tend to spread about an average value called:
a) Constant
b) Flatness
c) Variation
d) Skewness

8. The standard deviation of -5, -5, -5, -5, 5 is:

a) -5
b) 5
c) 0
d) -25

9. The measure of dispersion which uses only two observations is called:

a) Mean
b) Median
c) Coefficient of variation
d) Range

10. The average of squared deviations from mean is called:

a) Mean deviation
b) Variance
c) Standard deviation
d) Coefficient of variation
11. The error of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true is known as
a) Type-I error
b) Type-II error 2
c) Type-III error
d) Type-IV error

12. The mean and variance of Poisson distribution are both

a) 0
b) 1
c) λ
d) 1/λ

13. If a random variable X has a normal distribution, then eX has a/an _____
distribution.
a) lognormal
b) exponential
c) Poisson
d) binomial

14. Which of the following mentioned standard Probability density functions is

applicable to discrete Random Variables?
a) Gaussian Distribution
b) Poisson Distribution
c) Rayleigh Distributionn 3
d) Exponential Distribution

15. If a variable can certain integer values between two given points is called _______
a) Continuous random variable
b) Discrete random variable
c) Irregular random variable
d) Uncertain random variable

16. The variable that assigns a real number value to an event in a sample space is
called ___________
a) Random variable
b) Defined variable
c) Uncertain variable
d) Static variable

17. The expected value of a random variable is its ___________

a) Mean
b) Standard Deviation
c) Mean Deviation
d) Variance

18. The covariance of two independent random variable is ___________

a) 1
b) 0
c) -1
d) Undefined

19. The weight of persons in a state is a ___________

a) Continuous random variable
b) Discrete random variable
c) Irregular random variable
d) Not a random variable
20. If P(1) = P(3) in Poisson’s distribution, what is the mean?
a) \sqrt{2}
b) \sqrt{3}
c) \sqrt{6}
d) \sqrt{7}

21. Find λ in Poisson’s distribution if the probabilities of getting a head in biased coin
toss as 34 and 6 coins are tossed.
a) 3.5
b) 4.5
c) 5.5
d) 6.6

22. If P(6) = λP(1) in Poisson’s distribution, what is the mean?(Approximate value)

a) 4
b) 6
c) 5
d) 7

23. Find f(2) in normal distribution if mean is 0 and variance is 1.

a) 0.1468
b) 0.1568
c) 0.1668
d) 0.1768

24. How many parameters are there in Weibull distribution?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4

25. In Weibull distribution, if the value of β equal us equal to one that indicates the
failure rate is constant over time.
a) True
b) False

26. A statement made about a population for testing purpose is called?

a) Statistic
b) Hypothesis
c) Test-Statistic
d) Level of Significance

27. A statement whose validity is tested on the basis of a sample is called?

a) Null Hypothesis
b) Statistical Hypothesis
c) Simple Hypothesis
d) Composite Hypothesis

28. A hypothesis which defines the population distribution is called?

a) Null Hypothesis
b) Statistical Hypothesis
c) Simple Hypothesis
d) Composite Hypothesis

29. The rejection probability of Null Hypothesis when it is true is called as?
a) Level of Confidence
b) Level of Significance
c) Level of Margin
d) Level of Rejection
30. Which of the following is defined as the rule or formula to test a Null Hypothesis?
a) Test statistic
b) Population statistic
c) Variance statistic
d) Null statistic

31. What does the central limit theorem state?

a) if the sample size increases sampling distribution must approach normal distribution
b) if the sample size decreases then the sample distribution must approach normal
distribution
c) if the sample size increases then the sampling distribution much approach an exponential
distribution
d) if the sample size decreases then the sampling distribution much approach an exponential
distribution

32. Sampling error increases as we increase the sampling size.

a) True
b) False

33.The difference between the sample value expected and the estimates value of the
parameter is called as?
a) bias
b) error
c) contradiction
d) difference

34. The sampling error is defined as?

a) difference between population and parameter
b) difference between sample and parameter
c) difference between population and sample
d) difference between parameter and sample

35. A statement made about a population for testing purpose is called?

a) Statistic
b) Hypothesis
c) Level of Significance
d) Test-Statistic

36. Alternative Hypothesis is also called as?

a) Composite hypothesis
b) Research Hypothesis
c) Simple Hypothesis
d) Null Hypothesis

37. Normal Distribution is applied for ___________

a) Continuous Random Distribution
b) Discrete Random Variable
c) Irregular Random Variable
d) Uncertain Random Variable

38. The shape of the Normal Curve is ___________

a) Bell Shaped
b) Flat
c) Circular
d) Spiked
39. Normal Distribution is also known as ___________
a) Cauchy’s Distribution
b) Laplacian Distribution
c) Gaussian Distribution
d) Lagrangian Distribution

40. In Normal distribution, the highest value of ordinate occurs at ___________

a) Mean
b) Variance
c) Extremes
d) Same value occurs at all points

41. Exponential distribution is bi-variate.

a) True
b) False

42. A Null Hypothesis has Level of Significance 9%. For what values of Level of
Significances it will be rejected?
a) 0.99
b) 0.009
c) 0.099
d) 0.9

43. The Test Statistic for a Hypothesis testing is given by the formula ____________
a) Sample-Population/Standard Error
b) Sample statistic-Parameter/Standard Error
c) Sample mean-Population mean/Population standard deviation
d) Statistic-E(statistic)/Variance

44. The range of Level of Significance lies between ____________

a) -∞ and 0
b) -∞ and ∞
c) 0 and ∞
d) 0 and 1

45. The effect of rejection of a hypothesis with decrease in sample size ___________
a) decreases
b) increases
c) remains constant
d) fluctuates

46. Which of the following represents the Confidence coefficient?

a) 1-α
b) β
c) 1-β
d) α

47. A T-test sample has 7 pairs of samples. The distribution should contain ________
a) 16 degrees of freedom
b) 15 degrees of freedom
c) 5 degrees of freedom
d) 6 degrees of freedom

48. How can we increase the height of the graph of Weibull distribution?
a) if η is decreased while β and γ are constant
b) if η is increased while β and γ are constant
c) if η is constant while β and γ are increased
d) if η is constant while β and γ are decreased
49. The confusion matrix is used when there are two or more classes as the output of
the classifier.
a) True
b) False

50. The confusion matrix visualizes the ____ of a classifier by comparing the actual
and predicted classes.
a) Comparativity
b) Accuracy
c) Connectivity
d) Stability