ASTHA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

2nd Semester MBA (2020-21)

Sub: BR (18MBA204)

PART -I

Q.1. Short answer type questions (Answer All) [2x10=20]

a) What are the differences between one tailed & two tailed tests?
b) What is snowball sampling? Give an example.
c) Write two advantages of schedule.
d) What are Type-I and Type-II errors?
e) What do you mean by level of significance?
f) Explain Quota sampling.
g) Explain complete enumeration.
h) Write two advantages of hypothesis testing.
i) What do you mean by exploratory research?
j) What are the limitations of primary data?

PART-II
Q.2. Focused-Short Answer type questions (Answer any Eight out of Twelve) [6x8=48]

a) Explain the different steps of Research process.

b) Explain Probability Sampling with examples.

C) A sample of 225 students is found to have a mean weight of 67 kg. Can it be regarded as the sample from a
large population with mean weight 65 kg and standard deviation 2.3 kg? Test at 5% level of significance.

d) What is research design? Describe about experimental research design.

e) Briefly discuss about factor analysis & multiple regression analysis.

f) What is research report? Describe in details about structure of research report.

g) Write the principles should be followed for an ideal questionnaire design.

h) What are the differences between a questionnaire and a schedule?

i)An Institute claimed that all its students get 80% marks on an average. Hence mark % of 10 students are selected
at random. Test the claim at 5% LOS by Sign Test.

Roll 1 5 13 21 26 35 42 50 62 74
No.
Marks 82 75 80 90 92 74 84 85 79 80

j) What are the differences between Nominal and Ordinal Scale?

k) Distinguish between parametric and non-parametric tests.
l) Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research.

PART-III
 Long Answer type questions (Answer any two out of four)
Q.3 . Prepare an ANOVA Table for the following data. [16]

SALESMEN

Seasons P Q R S
Summer 6 7 3 8
Rainy 5 5 3 7
Winter 5 4 3 4
Also state whether varieties differences are significant at 5% level or not.

Q.4. [16]

A Survey is conducted to test the efficacy of Vaccination in checking Smallpox in a rural village with a population
of 2000.
The table given below shows the data obtained during outbreak of small pox:

Attacked Not attacked Total

Vaccinated 31 469 500

Not vaccinated 185 1315 1500
Total 216 1784 2000

Test the effectiveness of vaccination in preventing the attack from smallpox. Test your result at 5% level of
significance.

Q.5 Describe different types of research design with examples. [16]

Q.6 Critically appreciate on different types of report and comment on essentials of a good report. [16]