COMSATS UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD, Vehari Campus

Department of Computer Science

Quiz-2020

Class: BSCS/BSSE Date: 05/08/2020

Subject: Statistics and Probability Theory Instructor: Hina Naz

Quiz: MCQ’s Total Marks: 30 Time: 45 minutes

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1. Which of the following is a unitless measure of dispersion?

(a) standard deviation (b) mean deviation (c) coefficient of variance (d) range

2. The correct relationship between variance and variance of a variable X is:

⁄
(a) (b) (c) (d) none of the above

3. Correct formula for mean deviation from a constant A of a series in which the variate values
have frequencies respectively is:

(a) ∑ (b) ∑ (c) ∑| | (d) ∑| ̅|

4.Mean deviation is minimum when deviations are taken from:

(a) mean (b) median (c) mode (d) zero

5. If constant value 5 is subtracted from each observation of a set. The variance is:

(a)reduced by 5 (b) reduced by 25 (c) unaltered (d) increased by 25

6. If each observation of a set is divided by 10, the S.D of the new observation is:

(a) of S.D of original obs (b) of S.D of original obs (c)not changed (d)10 times of S.D of
original obs

7. The measure of dispersion which ignores signs of the deviations from a central value is:

(a) range (b) quartile deviation (c) standard deviation (d) mean deviation

8. Which of the following statement is true for a measure of dispersion?

(a)mean deviation does not follow algebraic rule (b) range is a crudest measure (c) coefficient of
variation is a relative measure (d) all the above statements
9. The standard deviation of a set of values will be:

(a) positive when the values are positive (b)positive when the values are negative (c) always positive
(d)all the above

10. Classical probability is possible in case of:

(a) unequal outcomes (b) equally likely outcomes (c) either unequilikely or equilikely outcomes (d)all
the above

11. if A and B are two events, the probability of occurrence of A and B simultaneously is given as:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

12. The probability of all possible outcomes of a random experiment is always equal to:

(a) infinity (b) zero (c) one (d) none of the above

13. If the probability ⁄ is equal to:

(a) zero (b) one (c) ⁄ (d) ⁄

14. From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn at random. The probability that one is an ace and the
other is a king is:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

15. If tossing three coins at a time, the probability of getting at most one head is:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

16. Given that , and , probability , ⁄ is :

(a) (b) (c) (d) none of them

17. The distribution in which the probability at each successive draw is varies is:

(a) hypergeometric distribution (b) geometric distribution (c) binomial distribution (d) poisson
diatribution

18. If Z is a standardized normal deviate, the proportion of items lying between z=-0.5 and z=-3.0

(a) 0.4987 (b) 0.1915 (c) 0.3072 (d) 0.3098

19. The value of statistic “t” to test a hypothetical value 20 0f population mean from a sample of size 10
having its mean=18.5 and variance= 1.21 is:
(a)-3.71 (b)-11.16 (c) 3.71 (d)-4.31

20. The skewness of a binomial distribution will be zero if:

(a) (b) (c) (d)

21. Binomal distribution tends to Poisson distribution when:

(a) (b) (c)

(d)

22. If all values in a data set are same, then the value of any measure of dispersion is:

(a)one (b)same as any single value (c) zero (d) equal to the number of values

23. The shape of the normal distribution curve depends on:

(a)the variance (b) the mode of the distribution (c) the mean (d) the mean & variance

24. which one of the following is a uniparametric distribution?

(a) Poisson distribution (b) Normal distribution (c) Hypergeometric distribution (d)Binomial
distribution

25. If a normal curve is properly peaked, than it is called

(a) mesokurtic (b) platykurtic (c) leptokurtic (d) any one of them

26. The rejection probability of Null Hypothesis when it is true is called as?
(a) Level of Significance (b) Level of Confidence (c) Level of Margin (d) Level of Rejection

27. The type of test is defined by which of the following?

(a) Null Hypothesis (b) Simple Hypothesis (c) Composite Hypothesis (d) Alternative Hypothesis

28. Type 1 error occurs when?

(a) We accept H0 if it is False (b) We reject H0 if it is False (c) We accept H0 if it is True (d) We reject
H0 if it is True

29. Parametric test, unlike the non-parametric tests, make certain assumptions about

(a) the population size (b) the underlying distribution (c) the sample size (d)

30. By taking a level of significance of 5% it is the same as saying

a) We are 5% confident the results have not occurred by chance
(b) We are 95% confident that the results have not occurred by chance
(c) We are 95% confident that the results have occurred by chance

31. Null and alternative hypotheses are statements about:

(a) population parameters (b) sample parameters (c) sample statistics (d) it depends - sometimes
population parameters and sometimes sample statistics

32. A result is called “statistically significant” whenever

(a) The null hypothesis is true (b) The alternative hypothesis is true (c) The p-value is less or
equal to the significance level (d) The p-value is larger than the significance level