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Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras

Quiz-2

MA204

Statistics

Question-cum-Answer Sheet
Date: March 17, 2008

Time: 8:00-8:50 a.m.

Max. Marks: 20

Answer all the questions.

Blanks marked with NA must be filled with numerical answers.
All numerical answers must be in decimals, correct to two decimal places.

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1. The life length, in hours, of a certain type of electronic device is a random variable X having
the probability density

0.001 e0.001 x for x > 0

f (x) =

0
otherwise.
If 100 such devices are chosen at random for testing and X denotes the sample mean, then
E(X) = 1000 (NA),

V ar(X) = 10000, (NA), and

P (950 < X < 1100) = .0.532 (NA).

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2. Let X1 , X2 , . . . , X9 constitute a random sample from a normal distribution with mean and
variance 1. If S 2 denotes the sample variance, then


2.306
X
2.306

P
= .0.95 (NA).
3
S
3

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3. The probability that the sample variance of a random sample of size 5 from a normal population
with = 12 exceeds 180 is .0.001925 (NA).

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4. Let X1 , X2 , . . . , Xn constitute a random sample taken from a discrete distribution having

probability distribution function as f (x; p) = p (1 p)x1 , x = 1, 2, 3, , 0 < p < 1.
The maximum likelihood estimator of the parameter p is 1/ X .

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5. Let X1 , X2 , X3 constitute a random sample from a distribution with unknown mean and
2X1 + 3X2 + 4X3
X1 + 2X2 + 3X3
and W =
. Then,
variance 1. Define Y =
6
9
V ar(Y ) = 7/18 = 0.389 (NA)
Among Y and W as estimators of , W is more efficient than Y

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1 e x + e x
6. A discrete probability distribution is given by P (X = x) =
. Then, in
2
x!
terms of and , 01 = ( + )/2., and 02 = (2 + + 2 + )/2.
The estimate of obtained by the method of moments, expressed in terms of m01 and m02 , is

m01

p 0
m2 m01 (m01 )2 .

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7. If a random sample from a normal population has the values 2.3, 1.9, 2.1, 2.8, 2.3, 3.6, 1.4, 1.8,
2.1 and 3.1, then the sample standard deviation s = 0.655. (NA), and a 95% confidence interval
for the population mean is 1.8713 < < 2.8087. (NA)

Relevant Tabular Values ( denotes the degree of freedom.)

Standard Normal (Cumulative Distribution Function):
F (0.05) = 0.4801, F (0.5) = 0.3085, F (0.1) = 0.5398, F (1) = 0.84134
t-distribution:
t, : t0.005, 8 = 3.355, t0.025, 8 = 2.306, t0.025, 9 = 2.262, t0.005, 9 = 3.250
2 -distribution:
2, : 20.0019, 4 = 5, 20.0019, 5 = 3.99, 20.207, 4 = 0.995

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