Biostatistics

42. Most frequently occurring value in a group of data: (c) 9th decile
(a) Mean [MP 2002] (d) 2nd quartile
(b) Mode [Recent Question 2012]
51. A measure of location that divides the distribution in
(c) Median
the ratio of 3:1 is: [AIPGME 2003]
(d) Standard deviation
(a) Median
43. What is true among given data 20, 31, 31, 31, 25, 28, 35, (b) First quartile
38, 31: [MP 2004] (c) Third quartile
(a) Mean is 31 (d) Mode
(b) Range is 20-38 52. Blood pressure data of 200 persons were collected. The
(c) Median is 15 first quartile BP of data was 94 mm Hg and third quartile
(d) Mode is 15 was 110 mm Hg. How many patients lie between the 3rd
44. Commonly used measures of central tendency are all of and 4th quartile? [AIIMS PG May 2015]
the following except: [MP 2005] (a) 25
(a) Mean (b) 50
(b) Median (c) 100
(d) 200
(c) Mode
(d) Chi-square test 53. A physician recorded Diastolic BP in 125 women aged
18-60 years and found the Mean to be 70 mm Hg with
45. Values are arranged in ascending and descending order
SD of 10 mm Hg. What will be the 5th Percentile value?
to calculate: [RJ 2000]
[AIIMS November 2015]
(a) Mean
(a) 40
(b) Mode (b) 53.6
(c) Median (c) 67.5
(d) S.D. (d) 89.4
OTHER MEASURES OF LOCATION
VARIABILITY

Biostatistics
46. ‘Centile’ divides data into: [AIPGME 01]
(a) 100 equal parts 54. Standard deviation is the measure of:
(b) 4 equal parts (a) Chance [AIPGME 08]
(c) 10 equal parts (b) Central tendency
(d) 20 equal parts (c) Deviation from mean value
(d) None
47. 50th percentile is equivalent to:
(a) Mean [AIIMS Sep 1996] 55. Median weight of 100 children was 12 kg. The stand-
(b) Median ard deviation was 3. Calculate the percent coefficient of
(c) Mode variance: [AIIMS May 1994]
(d) Range (a) 25%
(b) 35%
48. A bacterium can divide every 20 minutes. Beginning (c) 45%
with a single individual, how many bacteria will be (d) 55%
there in the population if there is exponential growth
for 3 hours? [AIIMS May 05] 56. While calculating the incubation period for measles in
(a) 18 a group of 25 kids, standard deviation is 2 and the mean
(b) 440 incubation period is 8 days, calculate standard error:
(c) 512 (a) 0.4 [AIPGME 1993]
(d) 1024 (b) 1.0
(c) 2.0
49. For a group of n = 250 subjects, 40th percentile would
(d) 0.5
be the following value (after arranging in ascending
order): [AIPGME 2000] 57. Standard deviation of means measures:
(a) 7th (a) Non-sampling errors [AIIMS May 01]
(b) 40th (b) Sampling errors
(c) 100th (c) Random errors
(d) 140th (d) Conceptual errors
50. Central value of a set of 180 values can be obtained by: 58. If the birth weight of each of the 10 babies born in a
(b) 90th percentile [AIIMS Nov 2000] hospital in a day is found to be 2.8 kg, then the standard
(a) 2nd tertile deviation of this sample will be:
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