Assignment-02

First Year B.S.S. (Hons) Examination-2020

Subject: Anthropology
Course: ANTH-106 (Statistics for Social Research)

1. a. What is measure of dispersion? What are the important measures of dispersion, which one is best 5
and Why?
b. When coefficient of variation is the needed rather than standard deviation and why? 3
d. A sample hypothetical data given in the following table: 12

Class Frequency
0-10 2
10-20 3
20-30 5
30-40 2

Calculate
i) Standard deviation
ii) Coefficient of variation
iii) Coefficient of skewness

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2. a. Show that, for n natural numbers variance is the n  112 . 5
c. Show that for two positive observations standard deviation is the half of the range. 5
The following are some of the particulars of the distribution of weights of boys and girls in a class 4
Boys Girls
Number 65 35
Mean weight 60kgs 45kgs
Standard deviation 4kgs 2kgs
The weights of which distribution is more homogeneous?

3. a. Define raw moment and central moment. 3

What do you mean by skewness? Graphically show symmetrical, positive skewed and negatively
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skewed curve.
b. Define kurtosis. Explain kurtosis is unit free measurement. 3
c. What is skewness? If the coefficient of skewness is -2.78, then shows the relation among mean, 3
median and mode.
d. For what value of 1 , mean, median and mode are equal? 1
e. Values of second, third and fourth central moment are given in the following table 7
Central moment 2 3 4
a) 2 -4 6
b) 3 0 30
c) 1 1 3

Calculate 1 ,  2 ,  1 and  2 , also comment on each of result.

4. a) What is correlation? Mention the properties of correlation coefficient. 3

b) Show that correlation coefficient lies between -1 to +1. 6
c) The regression line is given in the impact of GPA on study Hour (per hour) and Expense time in 6
social media (per hour)
GPA  2.20  0.35 Study Hour  0.04 Expense Time in Social Media
R 2  0.84
Explain the above result.
d) Interpret the following result: 5
When correlation coefficient between two variables x and y is
i) r  0.78 ii) r  0.93 iii) r  1.0 iv) r  1.01 v) r 2  0.92

4. a) What is regression? Difference between simple correlation and simple regression. 7

b) A pair of sample hypothetical data given in the following table: 13
X 2 5 3 2 4 6 7 4
Y 3 5 9 4 6 9 10 8
Calculate
i) Correlation coefficient between x and y and comment
ii) Fit the linear regression of y on x and comment.