MANAGEMENT KL UNIVERSITY Pre— Ph.D. EXAMINATIONS ~ JANUARY 2015 PAPER -1 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY #3 hours * Max. Marks: 100 any five of the following: 5x 20M (a) What do you understand by Research? Outline briefly about different types of esearch. (b) “Selecting a research problem involves many hurdles”, Discuss. ‘(@) What is a meant by Research Design? Describe the features of research design, }) What is meant by Random Sample? What are the techniques involved in selecting a random sample? _ (2) Outline the different sources of secondary data collection. (©) Critically examine the need for the application of SPSS in social science research. {®) What do you understand by Hypothesis? How it can be applied in social science research? (6) “Many researchers are using ANOVA in research process now a days”, Do you support it or not? Give reasons. _@ Do you support the concept of using research in personnel factors? Discuss. {b) Outline the recent trends taken place in social science research. (@) Prepare a model of questionnaire of your choice (b) What problems are identified in collecting information from respondents? How do you overcome them? (@) Outline the fundamentals of Time Series Analysis. (b) What are the basic principles of experimental design? (@) The following are the number of departmental stores in ten cities: 35, 27, 24, 32, 42, 30, 34, 40, 29 and 38. If we want to select a sample of 15 stores using cities as clusters and selecting within clusters proportional to size, how many stores from cach city should be chose? (Use a starting point of 4). (0) Develop a Likert’s Scale for measuring the opinion of students in Dethi regarding the issue of 33% reservation for women in the Parliament, What do you think are the advantages of adopting this scale? In this case what will be the limitations of using this scale? eeeENGG. & M.C.A. KL UNIVERSITY Pre. - Ph.D., EXAMINATIONS — JANUARY 2015 PAPER -1 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Max. Marks: 100 5x 20M ‘plain multivariate analysis with an example. is meant by discrete probability distribution? Explain it with one example. is meant by probability density function(PDF)? Write the PDF for normal ow do you conduct ANOVA (analysis of variance test)? Explain its significance. ss the common features of statistical software's used in research. Distinguish between technical report and management report. Explain mechanism of writing a research report. eeeMATHEMATICS, PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY KL UNIVERSITY Pre. —Ph.D., EXAMINATIONS — JANUARY 2015 PAPER -I RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 100 Answer any five of the following: 5 x 20M. 1. (@) Discuss various types of research methods, (b) Write about Bibliography, 2. (a) Define correlation and write its properties, (b) Find the regression coefficients from the given data: x/o|8] 9 [10 [ai [13] 14] 16 y {14| 17] 18 [18 | 16 [22 [25126 + (a) What is Time series? Explain various components of time series, (0) Explain different ways of presenting the data, 4. (a) Discuss the steps in sample design, @)A sample of heights of 6400 persons has a mean of 65 inches, Could it be regarded as having been drawn from the population of Indians with a mean of 66 inches and a standard deviation of 7 inches? 5. (a) Discuss various measures of Dispersion. (0) 1072 college students were classified according to their intelligence and economic conditions. Test whether intelligence is independent of economic condition at 5% level of significance. ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE, CONDITION, - Excelle | Good | Medioc | Dull nt re Good 48 199 181 82 Not good 81 185 190 106 (Note: 72 value for 3 degree of freedom at 5% level of significance is 7.815) (Turn Over)MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY 6. (a) What are the techniques of Interpretation? (b) 10 bearings made by a certain process have a mean diameter of 0.506 em with a standard deviation of 0.04cm. Construct the 95% confidence interval for the sotual average diameter of the bearings made by this process. [Note : 2.262) rable value of t at 5% level of significance for 9 degrees of freedom is 7. (a) What are various types of reports? (b) Write about the patent writing and filing, 8. Explain the following terms: (a) Monograph. (b) Spectral Analysis. (6) Goodness of fit (@) Oral presentation