Choose the correct answer

1. Variation in the quality characteristics of a productive is due to

A. Sampling inspection plans

B. Process control

C. Assignable cause

D. Pattern of variations

Answer is C

2. In the following probability experiment identify the independent event

A. Driving on ice and havin an accident smoking excessively and having lung cancer

C. Tossing acar and drawing a card from a deck

D. Reading long time and having better grade

Answer is C

3. in the analysis of descriptive statistics which measures of central tendency is considers all values of
the data

A. Quartile

B. Mode

C. Mean

D. Median

Answer is C

4. Best critical region for a sample H0 against a simple H1 is given by

A. Newman Pearson lemma

B. Fisher neyman theorem

C. Rao black well theorem

D. Cramer rao theorem

Answer is A
5. Goal of ordinary least square is

A. To maximize the average of the residuals

B. To minimize the sampling error

C. To minimize the same of squared of residuals

D. To minimize the average of residuals

Answers C

6. In the variable view window the label column can be cointan

A. Missing values of the variable name

B. Only short name of the variable

C. The long description about the name of the variable

D. Coding description of the variable name

Answer is C

7. The statistic used for Estimating a parameter of a population is called

A. Statistic

B. Estimate

C. Estimator

D. Parameter

Answer is C

8. Based on the test of consistency or adequacy of index numbers wich methods is more suggested for
choosing appropriate index

A. Fishers ideal methods

B. Simple aggregative method

C. Paasches method

D. Laspeyres method

Answer is A

9. A popular measure of age structure is the dependence ratio the higher the indicates
A. Higher number of working age population

B. Only high number of children

C. Fewer number of dependents

D. High number of young and elders

Answer isD

10.which one is not the characteristics of index number

A. Index number as the sum as averages

B. Index number are specialized average

C. Index numbers measures the net change in group of a related variable

D. Index number are measures the effect of change over period of time

Answer is A

11. A researcher wishes to study the factors in fluencing the primary food choose of employers.

The nominal response variable is the Primary food type (chicken beef fish or vegetation)which
categorical is appropriate for this

A. Log linear model

B. Cumulative logit model

C. Binary logit model

D. Multicategory logit model

Answers is D

12. In demography there are pushs and puul factors for migration which my not necessarily a push
factor

A. Entertainment

B. Disaster

C. Poverty

D. Pressure of population

Answer is A
13. In survey research there are two basic types of questions can be prepared open and closed ended
questionnaires which one characteristics is not deals with open ended questionnaire

A. The respondent to express any ideas generated from the question it self

B. Questions answers are restricted in some way to limited range of alternatives

C. It permit in unlimited number of possible answers

D. The respondent to answer it freely in his or her own words

Answer is B

14. In order for accurate measure of the linear relationship between two variable to be achieved what
type of data is required if using Pearson,s correlation coefficient

A. Categorical

B. Nominal

C. Ratio

D. Ordinal

Answer is C

15. In the concept of stationary population which one is not necessarily true

A. Natural growth rate is zero over time

B. Each sex composition has constant share over time

C. Population size is constant over time

D. Each age group has a constant share over time

Answer C

16. Which parameter estimation method is more appropriate for categorical data distribution

A. Method of moment estimation

B. Ordinal list square estimation

C. Uniformly minimum variance estimation

D. Maximum liklihood estimation

Answer D
17. Let be the minimum variance unbiased estimator then

A. V(T) = cramer rao lower bond

B. V(T) < cramer rao lower bond

C. (V(T) > cramer rao lower bond

D. (V(T) ≥ cramer rao lower bond

Answer is D

18. When we constructed of index number with the given formula its not affected by the unit of price or
quantities since unit test is one criteria of testing consistency of index number which method is satisfied
this test

A. Paasches methods

B. Simple Average or relatives

C. Fisher ideal methods

D. Simple aggregative methods

ANSWER IS B

19.the application of experimental design techniques early in process development can result in

A. Increases development time

B. Increase variability and closer conformance to nominal or target requirements 10

C. Increase over all cost

D. Improved process yield

Answer is D

20. In statical survey estimation of sample size should be required. Which factor is not considering in
sample size determination process

A. The confidence level or significance level

B. The number of study variable

C. the level of variability of the dependent variable

D. Specifying the margin of error

Answer is B
21. If we are interested in testing the equality of the population means which are more than three
groups of populations,

which mean comparison and test statistic are applicable, respectively?

A. Using Analysis of variance methods with F- test; assuming equal variance across groups

B. Running two independent sample test with multiple pairs t tests

c. Running Two population mean test with multiple pairs of Z-test statistic

D. Using non-parametric test with chi-square distribution test

Answer A

22. From which source of file formats SPSS imported/reads data files?

A. From Excel, dBASE, Lotus, and SAS only

B. From excel, Minitab and R software only

C. From Excel, STATA and R only

D. From a variety of file formats

Answer D

23.Which of the following functions in R can be used to generate random numbers from a normal distrib

a.norm

b. pois0

c. runif)

d. rbeta)

Answer A

2 4. A popular measure of age structure is the dependency ratio; the higher the ratio indicates
A.High number of young and elders

B. High number of working age population

C. Only high number of children

D Fewer number of dependents

Answer A

25. The standard Chi-squared test for a 2 by 2 contingency table is valid only if:

A. at least one variable is from a normal distribution

B. all the observed frequencies are greater than five

C. both variables are continuous

D. all the expected frequencies are greater than five

Answer D

26. Consider the AR(2) process is given as: Y t-1.5 Yt-1-0.5Y t-2+Ut- This process is

A. Stationary process

B. stationary and unit root process

C. Explosive proeess

D. Unit root process

Answer is A

27. If we are sampling from a population with unknown distribution, either finite or infinite, the
sampling distribution of

X will

still be approximately normal with mean u and varianceo/n, provided that the sample size is large. This
amazing result is

A. probability distribution of a statistic

B. Central Limit Theorem

C. Sampling Distribution of \barX}

D. Inference about the Population from Sample Information

Answer is B

28. A student is conductinga research on differences in body weight between engineering and health
science students

at a certain college. The data shows engineering students weight more than health science students on
average.

Then, his advisor points out College of Engineering are 81.1% male while health science is 7.7% male.
The student

conducts a second research study and incudes biological sex. He finds that there is no difference
between

engineering and health science students after controling for biological sex. What type of variable was
gender in the

first study?

A. Independent variable

B. Lurking variable

C. Dependent variable

D. Endo generous variable

Answer is B

29.If a relationship between two variables is statistically significant, it means the investigators think the
variables are
A. No correlation between the two variables

B. Related in the population represented by the sample

C. Related in the sample due to chance alone

D Not related in the population represented by the sample

Answer B

30. Branch of statistics which study the unknown aspects of a population distribution is

A.Estimation

B. Inferential statistics

C. Descriptive statistics

D. Hypothesis testing

Answer is B

31. When a 99% confidence interval is calculated instead ofa 95% confidence interval with n being the
same, the

maxirnum error of estimate will be

A. Larger

B. The same

C. It cannot be determined

D. Smaller

Answer A

32. Workers temporarily unemployed but who normally find jobs quickly are called

A. Structurally unemployed

B. Cyclically unemployed
C. Seasonally unemployed

D. Frictionally unemployed

Answer D

33.According to economics, Gross National product can be:

A. Will always less than gross domestic product in a closed economy

B. Will exceed gross domestic product if net factor payments from abroad are positive

C. Is identical to gross domestic product

D. Will always exceed gross domestic product in a closed economy

Answer B

34. In order to apply poison regression, which assumption should be fulfilled?

A. Count response vanable and quantitative orCategoncal predators

B. Continuous response variable and continuous predictor variables

C. Dichotomous response variable and continuous or categorical variables predators

D. Any categorical response variable and several other categorical variables.

Answer C.

35. Suppose you are a data scientist. And you observed the views on the articles increasing during the
month of Jan

Mar, whereas the view during Nov-Dec decreases. The component observed in this data is

A. Seasonal Component

B.Cyclic Component
C.Trend Companent

D. Irregular Component

Answer is A

36. If the true (correct) model is AR(1), then 11 could be different from zero and pkk = 0, kz2. Similarly, it
AR(2) is the

correctmodel の 11 and 022 must be different from Zero while pkk = 0,kz3. Hence, we say that the PACF

A.Cuts off after lagp for AR(p)

B Die out (Tails off)

C .Cut off after the order q of the process

D. Cut off after the order q of the process

Answer is A

37. What is the effect of an outlier on the value of a correlation coefficient?

A It can decrease or increase a correlation coefficient

B. twill always increase a cOrrelation coeficient

C.It has no effect on a correlation coefficient

D. It wil always decrease a correlation coefficient

Answer is A

38. Among all the tests whose size is less than or equal to a the one for which B is minimum is called one
for which

A. Critical region

B. Type l error

C.Level of significance

D. Most powerful test

Answer is D

38. Lots of 40 components each are deemed unacceptable if they contain 3 or more defectives. The
procedure for
sampling a lot is to select 5 components at random and to reject the lot if a defective is found. What is
the

probability that exactly 1 defective is found in the sample if there are 3 defectives in the entire lot?

A.0.2314

B. 0.3011

C.0.1324

D .0.9834

Answer is A

39. The upper and lower control limits on a control chart are usually set at \pm 2 standard deviations
from the mean. Ifwe assume that the data exhibit a normal distribution, these control limits will capture

A.54.55% of the normal variation

B. 26% of the normal variation

C. 99.74% of the normal variation

D. 95.44% of the normal variation

Answer is D

40 According to international standard description, Neonatal Mortality measures

A. The risk of dying for 29 days to 1 year of age per 1,000 live births

B. The risk of dying between birth and one year per 1,000 Tive births

C. The risk of dying within 28 days of birth per 1,000 live births

D. The risk of dying for five years life after birth

Answer is C

Prepared by Abdikani mohamed

Jigjiga university student statistics department