1.
8 plants were studied with amount of fertilizers “x” in grams and their height “y”
Find the regression line of
a) Y on x
b) X on y
c) Correlation coefficient
2. For given lines of regression 3x - 2y = 5 and x – 4y =7 find
a) Correlation coefficient r
3. Mean of X = 3 and mean of Y = 5, correlation coefficient = 0.5 standard deviations of X and Y
are 5 and 4 respectively.
a) Equation of regression line
b) Value of y when x= 9
c) Value of x when y =14
4. If X has Poisson distribution with parameter m and p (X = 2) = (X = 3), then find P (X ≥ 2). Use
e−3 = 0.0497.
5. Fill in the blanks.
1) If F (x) is distribution function of discrete r.v. X with p.m.f. P (x) = k 4Cx for x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,
and P (x) = 0 otherwise then F (−1) = ........
2) In Binomial distribution probability of success ...... from trial to trial.
3) In Binomial distribution if n is very large and probability success of p is very small such
that np = m (constant) then ....... distribution is applied.
6. Let X be the amount of time for which a book is taken out of library by a randomly selected
student and suppose that X has p. d. f.
f (x) = 0.5x, for 0 ≤ x ≤ 5,
f (x) = 0, otherwise.
Calculate
(i) p (x ≤ 1),
(ii) (ii) p (0.5 ≤ X ≤ 1.5),
(iii) (iii) p (x ≥ 1.5)
7. Given: n = 8, Σ (X − X)2 = 36, Σ (Y − Y )2 = 40, Σ (X − X)(Y − Y ) = 24, X = 13, Y = 17. Obtain the
two regression equations
MCQ
8. For a bivariate data, the regression coefficient of Y on X is 0.4 and regression coefficient of X
on Y is 0.9 then the correlation coefficient between X and Y is ..............
a) 1.3 b) 0.6 c) 0.5 d) 0.36.
9. For a bivariate data, the standard deviation of x and y is 3.5 and 28 respectively. If the
coefficient of correlation between x and y is 0.8 then bYX is ...................
a) 0.64 b) 2 c) 6.4 d) 1.2
10. If the regression equation of X on Y is 5x − 2y = 40 and mean value of Y is 5, then mean value
of X is .................
a) 12.5. b) 10 c) 8.5 d) 5
Fill in the blanks.
1) If bYX = − 0.9, r = − 0.6, then bXY is .....................
2) Correlation between Y and −Y is .....................
3) correlation between - X and X is……………
4) If u = x − a and v = y − b then bXY = ................
5) If r = 0.5, σx = 4 and σy = 5 then bXY is ......................
6) If r = 0.5, σx = 4 and σy = 5 then bYX is .......................
7) If r = 0.6 and bYX = 0.5 then σx σy is .................
8) If the regression equation of X on Y is 5x = 2y + 40 and mean value of X is 10, then mean
value of Y is ......................
9) If the regression line of Y on X is 3x + 2y = 26, then bYX is ................................
10) If the regression line of X on Y is 5x − 7y = 12, then bXY is ................................
11)The regression equations of two regression lines are 3x + 2y = 26 and 5x + 7y = 12 then
the r 2 , is .........................
12)The regression equation of Y on X and X on Y is 2y − x − 50 = 0 and 3y − 2x = 10
respectively, then the likely value of Y when X = 10 is ........................
13)The regression equation of Y on X and X on Y is 2y − x − 50 = 0 and 3y − 2x = 10
respectively, then the likely value of X when Y = 12 is ....................
14)If bXY = 2 5 and σy = 6 then Cov (X, Y) = ..................
15)If bYX = 9 10 and Cov (X, Y) = 729 10 , then σx is ...............
