Statistics MCQs on Sampling and Sampling Distributions

Q1 The sampling Error is

a) Equal to the population mean
b) Population parameter
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d) Always Positive
e) Always Negative
Q2 The height distribution of a few students in a school is an example
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Q3 The unbiased point estimator of the population mean is
a) Sample proportion
b) Sample mean
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c) Sample Variance
d) Sample standard deviation
e) None of these
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Q4 Bias is
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d) None of these
Q5 The sampling technique in which every element of the population
has an equal, non-zero probability of being selected in a sample is
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a) Probability Sampling
b) Convenience Sampling
c) Purposive Sampling
d) Quota Sampling
e) Stratied Sampling
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Q6 If the mean of the sampling distribution is equal to the parameters

then estimators will be

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Q7 Probability distribution of X is called its
a) Expected Value
b) Standard Error
c) Sampling Distribution

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d) Standard Deviation
e) None of these
Q8 Probability distribution of a statistic is called
a) Sampling Distribution
b) Standard Error
c) Sampling Error
d) Parameter
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e) Bias
Q9 A magazine conducts a survey and asks its readers to cut the
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a type of
a) Purposive Sampling
b) Snowball Sampling
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d) Convenience Sampling
Q10 Standard error of mean is the standard deviation of the
a) Population
b) Sample
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c) Sampling Distribution of X
d) None of these
Answers
1) d 2) d 3) b 4) a 5) a
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6) d 7) c 8) a 9) d 10) c

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