IC82 STATISTICS - 02

Que. 1 : Q1) Measures of Fourth Order(Fourth Moments) are known as ______________ which gives information about shape of the distribution curve.

   1.  a) Measures of Dispersion

   2.  b) Measures of Kurtosis

   3.  c) Measures of Central Tendency

   4.  d) Measures of Skewness

Que. 2 : Q2) In the customary method of hypothesis testing, which of the following assumptions are made?

   1.  a) For each possible value of independent variables, the population distribution of the residuals is normal with mean zero and variance σ_e^2

   2.  b) For all possible values of independent variables, σ_e^2 is constant

   3.  c) The residual components in the y values are independent from observation to observation

   4.  d) All of the above

Que. 3 : Q3) Up till now, we have dealt with the procedure of computation of single factor Analysis of variance (ANOVA) , which identifies the component of Treatment Factor in the Total variance, which is known as ____________.

   1.  a) Unexplained variance

   2.  b) Explained variance

   3.  c) Treatment variance

   4.  d) Operation variance

Que. 4 : Q4) The most common measures of Location are

   1.  a) Mean

   2.  b) Median

   3.  c) Mode

   4.  d) All of the above

Que. 5 : Q5) Who was the first person who studied statistics of births and deaths and is often referred to as the father of vital statistics?

   1.  a) Edmund Hally

   2.  b) Thomas Simpson

   3.  c) Captain John Graunt

   4.  d) J.P.Sussmilch