EXAM (CURVE FITTING)

1. It examines the relationship between one or more predictors (independent variables)

and a response variable (dependent variable), with the goal of defining a “best fit”
model of the relationship.
a. Regression
b. Interpolation
c. Curve Fitting
d. Line Fitting

2. A general approach in curve fitting. Its strategy is to pass a curve or a series through
each of the points.
a. Regression
b. Interpolation
c. Curve Fitting
d. Line Fitting

3. It is one of the applications encountered in Engineering, which predicts the values of

dependent variable.
a. Hypothesis Testing
b. Hypothesis Analysis
c. Trend Testing
d. Trend Analysis

4. Another application you can encounter in Engineering, which compares existing

mathematical model with measured data.
a. Hypothesis Testing
b. Hypothesis Analysis
c. Trend Testing
d. Trend Analysis

5. It is the representation of spread by the square of the standard deviation.

a. Variance
b. Standard Deviation
c. Arithmetic Mean
d. Coefficient of Variation

6. Here are the factors to be considered when finding the ‘best’ straight line. Which one
is NOT True?
a. Consider the distance between the data and points on the line
b. Subtract the length of all the red and blue vertical lines
c. This is an expression of the ‘error’ between data and fitted line
d. The one line that provides a minimum error is then the ‘best’

Curve Fitting Techniques

7. It is the most popular and useful form of Interpolation.
a. Lagrange Interpolating Polynomials
b. Cubic Spline
c. Linear Spline
d. Newton’s Divided Difference

8. Multiple linear regression is utilized when a dependent variable is a linear function of

two or more independent variables.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
d. None of the Above

9. Newton’s divided-difference interpolating polynomial is ideally suited for those cases

where proper order of the polynomial is known.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
d. None of the Above

10. Cubic splines are more prone to oscillations because they are limited to third-order
variations.
a. True
b. False
c. Maybe
d. None of the Above

Curve Fitting Techniques