1.

The formula for computing the mean is:

a) Ex/x

b) EX/EX

c) EX/n (Right Answer)

d) EX/z

2. When a researcher rejects a null hypothesis what is actually true is called, a) All

of these b) Power test

c) Type-II error

d) Type-I error (Right Answer)

3. Pictogram is also known as,

a) Pie

b) Bar

c) Row

d) Picto (Right Answer)

4. Range is difference between ________ and ________ observation in a set of data.

a) Central-extreme

b) Largest-smallest (Right Answer)

c) Q1-Q3

d) Mean-median
5. A pie chart displays the data in the form of,

a) Bars

b) Lines

c) Slices (Right Answer)

d) Boxes

6. How many levels must there be in one independent variable for an ANOVA to be
used?

a) One (Right Answer)

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

7. Median of the data 10, 12, 14, 18, 20 is:

a) 12

b) 14 (Right Answer)

c) 15

d) 18

8. For the given numbers “5, 7, 10, 9, 4”, range is ________. a) 10 b) 8

 c) 7
d) 6 (Right Answer)

9. _________ hypothesis states that there is no effect:

a) Null (Right Answer)

b) Alternative

c) Simple

d) Composite

10. Data displayed in a contingency table, the expected frequencies for each cell, are
not less than a) 20

b) 15

c) 10

d) 05 (Right Answer)

11. A random distribution often means there are,

a) No classes

b) No data

c) No value

d) Too many classes (Right Answer)

12. First time obtained data is called ________.

 a) Primary data (Right Answer)

b) Secondary data

c) Raw data

d) None of these

13. In bar charts which of following may have the scale and indicates the units of
measurement? a) X-axis

b) Y-axis (Right Answer)

c) Both of these

d) None of these

14. A statistical method that uses sample data to accept or reject a hypothesis about
a parameter is called; a) Statistical hypothesis

b) Interval estimation

c) Hypothesis testing (Right Answer)

d) Type-I error

15. Which of the following similar to the bar chart,

a) Pie chart

b) Historigram

c) Pictogram

d) Histogram (Right Answer)

16. Measures of central tendency are mean, _______ and mode.

a) Median (Right Answer)

b) Data

c) Number

d) Variance

17. Chi-square goodness of fit test is used to find out how the observed value of a
given phenomena is significantly different from the a) Calculated values b)

Table value

c) Missing value

d) Expected value (Right Answer)

18. Which of the following is not a form of non-random sampling?

a) Snowball sampling

b) Systematic sampling (Right Answer)

c) Quota sampling

d) Purposive sampling

19. For Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 70, Quartile deviation = __________. a) 20 b) 25 (Right

Answer)

c) 50
 d) 70

20. _________ divides a dataset into four equal parts.

a) Mean

b) Median

c) Standard deviation

d) Quartile (Right Answer)

21. Range of t-statistics is;

a) -1 to +1

b) –infinity to +infinity

c) -00 to +00 (Right Answer)

d) 0 to + infinity

22. Quota sampling is a type of ___________ sampling.

a) Probability

b) Non- Probability (Right Answer)

c) Cluster

d) None of these

23. Which of the following displays relative numbers / proportions of multiple

categories?

a) Pictogram
 b) Pie chart

c) Bar chart (Right Answer)

d) Histogram

24. A distribution skewed to the right is said to be,

a) Negatively skewed

b) Positively skewed (Right Answer)

c) Normal distribution

d) Bimodal distribution

25. Range in a set of data is calculated by?

a) Adding the biggest and smallest numbers (Right Answer)

b) Placing the number in order form least to greatest

c) Subtracting maximum and minimum values

d) Finding the average

Data for the bar charts may be entered in:

e) Columns (Right Answer)

f) Rows

g) Table

h) None of these

26. A bimodal shape has the _________ peaks.

a) Two (Right Answer)

 b) Three

c) Four

d) Five

27. Which one of the following is not probability sampling?

a) Simple random sampling

b) Systematic sampling

c) Stratified sampling

d) Judgment sampling (Right Answer)

28. A variable that is used to explain the relationship between variable: a) Binary
variable

b) Independent variable

c) Random variable

d) Intervening variable (Right Answer)

29. Histograms are used for the data that is.

a) At least ordinal level of measurement (Right Answer)

b) At most ordinal of measurement

c) At any level of the measurement

d) None of these
30. To make the chi-square approximation valid, there is requirement of sufficient a)

Sample (Right Answer)

b) Population

c) Data

d) Literature

32. There are 55% students having black eye colour in a class of 40, thus they are in
total a) 28

b) 22 (Right Answer)

c) 11

d) 05

33. Graph of the frequency distribution is known as,

a) Histogram (Right Answer)

b) Multiple bar chart

c) Sub-divided bar chart

d) None of these

34. Which of the following statements is true for correlation analysis? a) It is a

bivariate analysis

b) It is a multivariate analysis

c) It is a univariate analysis
 d) Both A and B (Right Answer)

35. In a study, subjects are randomly assigned to one of three groups: control,
experimental A, or experimental B, after treatment, the mean scores for the three
groups are compared. The appropriate statistical test for comparing these means
is:

a) The correlation coefficient

b) Chi square

c) The t-test

d) The analysis of variance (Right Answer)

36. The chi-square distribution are always ___________ skewed.

a) Right (Right Answer)

b) Up

c) Left

d) Down

37. Analysis of variance is a statistical method of comparing the ________ of several

populations.

a) Standard deviations

b) Variances

c) Means (Right Answer)

d) Proportions
38. As variability due to chance decreases, the value of F will

a) Increase (Right Answer)

b) Stay the same

c) Decrease

d) Can’t tell form the given information

39. _________ (the measure of central tendency) is affected by extreme scores in a

dataset.

a) Mean (Right Answer)

b) Median

c) Mode

d) Range

40. A uniform distribution often means that the number of classes is too, a) Large b)

Different

c) Same

d) Small (Right Answer)

41. T-test is used for comparing ________ values of two data sets;

a) Mean (Right Answer)

b) Standard deviation

c) Variance
 d) None of these

42. As the sample size increases the shape of the distribution approaches to; a) T-
distribution

b) Normal-distribution (Right Answer)

c) Chi-square distribution

d) F-distribution

43. All data points falling along a straight line is called:

a) Linear relationship (Right Answer)

b) Non-linear relationship

c) Residual

d) Scatter diagram

44. In simple linear regression, the numbers of unknown constants are: a) One b)

Two (Right Answer)

c) Three

d) Four

45. The method of least squares dictates that we choose a regression line where the
sum of the square of deviations of the points from the lie is: a) Maximum

b) Minimum (Right Answer)

 c) Zero

d) Positive

46. What divides the data in the two equal halves:

a) Mean

b) Media (Right Answer)

c) Mode

d) Geometric mean

47. __________ of a dataset is the middle value when the dataset is arranged in
ascending or descending order.

a) Mean

b) Median (Right Answer)

c) Standard deviation

d) Variance

48. If the value of any regression coefficient is zero, then two variables are: a)
Qualitative

b) Correlation

c) Dependent

d) Independent (Right Answer)

49. What do ANOVA calculate?

a) R ratios

b) F ratios (Right Answer)

c) Mann whitney

d) Z-scores

50. Which one is considered the best measure of dispersion in social sciences?

a) Standard deviation (Right Answer)

b) Quartile deviation

c) Range

d) Mean deviation