SECTION A (SHORT ANSWER)

Q1. Attempt any four of the following:

Two judges at a fete placed the ten entries for

the 'best fruit cakes' competition in order as
follows (1 denotes first, etc.)

Entry A B C D E F G H I J

Judge 1 2 9 1 3 10 4 6 8 5 7

Judge 2 6 9 2 1 8 4 3 10 7 5

Solution:

Entry A B C D E F G H I J

Judge 1 2 9 1 3 10 4 6 8 5 7

Judge 2 6 9 2 1 8 4 3 10 7 5

d 4 0 1 2 2 0 3 2 2 2

d 16 0 1 4 4 0 9 4 4 4

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d)what do you understand by inferential statistics? discuss with the importance
of same in business and decision making.
Answer: In Inferential statistics, we make an inference from a sample about the
population. The main aim of inferential statistics is to draw some conclusions from
the sample and generalise them for the population data. E.g. we have to find the
average salary of a data analyst across India. There are two options.

1. The first option is to consider the data of data analysts across India and
ask them their salaries and take an average.

2. The second option is to take a sample of data analysts from the major IT
cities in India and take their average and consider that for across India.
The first option is not possible as it is very difficult to collect all the data of data
analysts across India. It is time-consuming as well as costly. So, to overcome this
issue, we will look into the second option to collect a small sample of salaries of data
analysts and take their average as India average. This is the inferential statistics
where we make an inference from a sample about the population. 

In inferential statistics, we will discuss probability, distributions, and hypothesis

testing.

Importance of Inferential Statistics

 Making conclusions from a sample about the population

 To conclude if a sample selected is statistically significant to the whole

population or not

 Comparing two models to find which one is more statistically significant as

compared to the other.

 In feature selection, whether adding or removing a variable helps in

improving the model or not.
b)Three machines E1. E2,E3 in a certain factory produce 50% . 25% and
25% respectively of the total daily output of electric tubes. It is known that 4% of
the tube produced on each of machines E1. and E2,are defective and that 5% those
produced on E3 are defective. If one is picked up at random from a day production,
calculate the probability that it is defective.
e) The mean of the following frequency distribution is 62.8 and the sum of all
the frequencies is 50. Compute the missing frequency f1 and f2.

40-
Class 0-20 20-40 60-80 80-100 100-120
60
Frequenc
5 f1 10 f2 7 8
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