Multiple choice questions on Correlation and
Regression.
Question 1
The range of the correlation coefficient is?
a. -1 to 0.
b. O to 1.
C. -1 to 1.
d. None of the above.
Question 2
Which of the following values could not representa correlation coefficient?
a. r= 0.99
b.r= 1.09
c.r=-0.73
d.r=-1.0
Question 3
Answer questions 3 -9 from the following problem statement.
An instructor wants to show the students that there is a linear correlation
between the number of hours they spent watching TV during a certain weekend
and their scores on a test taken the following Monday. The number of television
viewing hours and the test scores for 12 randomly selected students are shown
in Table 1.
What is value of the correlation coefficient, r?
Hours
x01233555677 10
Score
y 96 85 82 74 95 68 76 84 5865 75 50
a. 0.84
b. -0,831
c. -0.952
d. 1.0
Question 4
Using Table 11 in Appendix Bof the text, what is the critical value if α =
0.05?
a. 0.632
b. 0.735
c. 0.708
d. 0.576
Question 5
Which of the following is true at α = 0.05?
a. Ir| > critical value
b. Irl < critical value
c. Irl = critical value
d. None of the above
Question6
What are the null and alternative hypotheses for this given problem?
a. Ho: ρ = 0; Ha: ρ &.#8800; 0
b. Ho: ρ ≥ 0; Ha: ρ < 0
c. Ho: ρ ≤ 0; Ha: ρ >0
d. Ho: ρ < 0; Ha: ρ ≥ 0
Question 7
If a hypothesis test at α, = 0.05, has been performed using Table 5 in
Appendix B, then what are the rejection regions?
a.t<-2.447 &t> 2.447
b.t<-1.812 &t> 1.812
c.t<-2.228 &t >2.228
d. t< -0.7 &t>0.7
Question 8
What is the value of standardized test statistics, t?
a. -4.73
b. -5.18
c. 5.67
d. 4.03
Question 10
If ŷ is the predicted value for a given x-value and b is the y-intercept then the
equation of a regression line for an independent variable x and a dependent
variable y is
a. ŷ = mx + b, where m = slope.
b. x = ŷ + mb, where m = slope.
c. ŷ = x/m + b, where m = slope.
d. ŷ=X+ mb, where m=slope.
Question 11
Answer questions 11- 14 from the following table.
The ages (in years) of seven children and number of words in their vocabulary is
given in Table 2
What is the value of slope, m of the equation of regression line for the given data?
Age, x 3 4 45623
Vocabulary size, y 1100 1300 1500 2100 2600 460 1200
a. m =-504474
b. m =-490.791
C. m= 510.789
d. m = 1300
Question 12
What is the value of y-intercept, b of the equation of regression line for the given
data?
a. -504.474
b. -490.791
c. 510.789
d. 1300
Question 13
Using the regression line equation for the given data, find the value of y for x = 4.
a. 1300
b. 1400
c. 1500
d. 1539
Question 14
What is the standard error of estimate, se for this given problem?
a. 139.2
b. 141.3
c. 1143.3
d. 1541.8
Question 15
Which of the following indicates a strong positive correlation?
a. r=0
b.r= -0.793
c.r= 0.913
d. r= 0.45
Question 16
The coefficient of determination is the
a. ratio of the explained variation to the total deviation.
b. ratio of the unexplained deviation to the explained deviation.
C. ratio of the unexplained deviation to the total variation.
d. ratio of the explained variation to the total variation.
Question 17
If the correlation coefficient r =0.5 then the coefficient of determination is
a. 0.10
b. 0.25
c. 1.00
d. 2.50
Question 18
Which one of the following statement is false?
a. A nonparametric test is a hypothesis test.
b. A nonparametric test requires a specific condition.
c. Nonparametric tests are easier to perform than corresponding parametric
tests.
d. Nonparametric tests are less efficient than parametric tests.
Question 19
Which of the following statement is true for using Wilcoxon signed-test and
Wilcoxon rank sum test?
a. If the samples are dependent we can use a Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
b. If the samples are independent we can use a Wilcoxon rank sum test.
c. None of the above.
d. Both of A &B.
Question 20
The condition(s) for using a Kruskal-Wallis test is/are
a. The sample must be randomly selected.
b. The size of each sample must be at least 10.
c. None of above.
d. Both ofA &B.
Correlation is a statistical tool that shows the
association between two variables.
Regression, on the other hand, evaluates the
relationship between an independent anda
dependent variable.
Below is a list of multiple-choice questions
and answers on Correlation and Regression
to understand the topic better.
1. Which of the following are types of
correlation?
a. Positive and Negative
b. Simple, Partial and Multiple
c. Linear and Nonlinear
d. All of the above
Answer: d
2. Which of the following is true for the
coefficient of correlation?
a. The coefficient of correlation is not
dependent on the change of scale
b. The coefficient of correlation is not
dependent on the change of origin
c. The coefficient of correlation is not
dependent on both the change of scale
and change of origin
d. None of the above
Answer: c
3. Which of the following statements is true for
correlation analysis?
a. It is a bivariate analysis
b. It is a multivariate analysis
c. It is a univariate analysis
d. Both a and c
Answer: c
4. If the values of two variables move in the
same direction,
a. The correlation is said to be non-linear
b. The correlation is said to be linear
c. The correlation is said to be negative
d. The correlation is said to be positive
Answer: d
5. If the values of two variables move in the
opposite direction,_
a. The correlation is said to be linear
b. The correlation is said to be non-linear
c. The correlation is said to be positive
d. The correlation is said to be negative
Answer: d
6. Which of the following techniques is an
analysis of the relationship between two
variables to help provide the prediction
mechanism?
a. Standard error
b. Correlation
c. Regression
d. None of the above
Answer: c
7. Which of the following statements is true
about the arithmetic mean of two regression
coefficients?
a. lt is less than the correlation coefficient
b. It is equal to the correlation coefficient
c. It is greater than or equal to the
correlation coefficient
d. It is greater than the correlation
coefficient
Answer: d
8. What is the meaning of the testing of the
hypothesis?
a. It is a significant estimation of the
problemn
b. It is a rule for acceptance or rejection of
the hypothesis of the research problerm
c. It is a method of making a significant
statement
d. None of the above
Answer:b
9. Which of the following statements is true
about the null hypothesis?
a. Any wrong decision related to the null
hypothesis results in two types of errors
b. Any wrong decision related to the null
hypothesis results in one type of an error
c. Any wrong decision related to the null
hypothesis results in four types of errors
d. Any wrong decision related to the null
hypothesis results in three types of
errors
Answer: o
10. Which of the following statements is true
about the type two error?
a. Type two error means to accept an
incorrect hypothesis
b. Type two error means to reject an
incorrect hypothesis
C. Type tWo error means to accept a
correct hypothesis
d. Type two error means to reject a correct
hypothesis
Answer: a
I1. Which of the following statements is true
about the level of significance?
a. In testing a hypothesis, we take the level
of significance as 2% it it is not
mentioned earlier
b. In testing a hypothesis, we take the level
of significance as l% if it is not
mentioned earlier
C. In testing a hypothesis, we take the level
of significance as 10% if it is not
mentioned earlier
d. In testing a hypothesis, we take the level
of significance as 5% if it is not
mentioned earlier
Answer: a
12. The independent variable is used to explain
the dependent variable in
a. Linear regression analysis
b. Multiple regression analysis
c. Non-linear regression analysis
d. None of the above
Answer: a
13. Which of the following statements is true
about the regression line?
a. Aregression line is also known as the
line of the average relationship
b. Aregression line is also known as the
estimating equation
c. Aregression line is also known as the
prediction equation
d. All of the above
Answer: d
14. Which of the following statements is true
about the correlational analysis between two
sets of data?
a. The correlational analysis between two
sets of data is known as a simple
correlation
b. The correlational analysis between two
sets of data is known as multiple
correlation
c. The correlational analysis between twO
sets of data is known as partial
Correlation
d. None of the above
Answer: a
15. The original hypothesis is known as
a. Alternate hypothesis
b. Null hypothesis
c. Botha and b are incorrect
d. Botha andb are correct
Answer:b
