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Answer: C
Answer: C
A numerical value used as a summary measure for a sample, such as a sample mean, is known
as a
A) Population Parameter
B) Sample Parameter
C) Sample Statistic
D) Population Mean
Answer: C
2. Statistics branches include
A) Applied Statistics
B) Mathematical Statistics
C) Industry Statistics
D) Both A and B
Answer: D
3. To enhance a procedure the control charts and procedures of descriptive statistics are classified
into
A) Behavioural Tools
B) Serial Tools
C) Industry Statistics
D) Statistical Tools
Answer: A
4. Sample statistics are also represented as
A) Lower Case Greek Letter
B) Roman Letters
C) Associated Roman Alphabets
D) Upper Case Greek Letter
Answer: B
5. Individual respondents, focus groups, and panels of respondents are categorised as
A) Primary Data Sources
B) Secondary Data Sources
C) Itemised Data Sources
D) Pointed Data Sources
Answer: A
6. The variables whose calculation is done according to the weight, height and length and weight are
known as:
A) Flowchart Variables
B) Discrete Variables
C) Continuous Variables
D) Measuring Variables
Answer: C
7. A method used to examine inflation rate anticipation, unemployment rate and capacity utilisation
to produce products is classified as
A) Data Exporting Technique
B) Data Importing Technique
C) Forecasting Technique
D) Data Supplying Technique
Answer: C
8. Graphical and numerical methods are specialized processes utilised in
A) Education Statistics
B) Descriptive Statistics
C) Business Statistics
D) Social Statistics
Answer: B
9. The scale applied in statistics which imparts a difference of magnitude and proportions is
considered as
A) Exponential Scale
B) Goodness Scale
C) Ratio Scale
D) Satisfactory Scale
Answer: C
10. Review of performance appraisal, labour turnover rates, planning of incentives and training
programs and are examples of
A) Statistics in Production
B) Statistics in Marketing
C) Statistics in Finance
D) Statistics in Personnel Management
Answer: D
Which of the following is the probability calculus of beliefs, given that beliefs follow certain rules?
a) Bayesian probability
b) Frequency probability
c) Frequency inference
d) Bayesian inference
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Answer: a
Explanation: Data scientists tend to fall within shades of gray of these and various other schools of
inference.
a) Bayesian inference is the use of Bayesian probability representation of beliefs to perform inference
c) Frequency inference is the use of Bayesian probability representation of beliefs to perform inference
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Answer: a
Explanation: Frequency probability is the long run proportion of times an event occurs in independent,
identically distributed repetitions.
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Answer: d
Explanation: The probability distribution of a discrete random variable is a list of probabilities associated
with each of its possible values.
4. Which of the following random variable that take on only a countable number of possibilities?
a) Discrete
b) Non Discrete
c) Continuous
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Answer: a
Explanation: Continuous random variable can take any value on some subset of the real line.
c) Continuous random variable can take any value on the real line
View Answer
Answer: b
a) stochast
b) aleatory
c) eliette
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Answer: b
a) True
b) False
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Answer: b
Explanation: Frequency inference uses frequency interpretations of probabilities to control error rates.
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: A probability mass function evaluated at a value corresponds to the probability that a
random variable takes that value.
a) pdf
b) pmv
c) pmf
View Answer
Answer: a
10. Statistical inference is the process of drawing formal conclusions from data.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: Statistical inference requires navigating the set of assumptions and tools
A sample from the population does not have to share the same characteristics as the
population
a) True
b) False
Question 2
a) True
b) False
Question 3
With the non-probability sampling methods you do not know the likelihood that any element
of a population will be selected in a sample
a) True
b) False
Question 4
a) From a random starting point, every nth unit from the sampling frame is
selected
b) A non-probability strategy is used, making the results difficult to
generalize
c) The researcher has a certain quota of respondents to fill for various social
groups
d) Every unit of the population has an equal chance of being selected
Question 3
What effect does increasing the sample size have upon the sampling error?
a. When an interval estimate is associated with a degree of confidence that it actually includes the
b. If the population mean and population standard deviation are both known, one can make
c. If the population mean and population standard deviation are both known, one can use the central
limit theorem and make probability statements about the means of samples taken from the
population
d. If the population mean is unknown, one can use sample data as the basis from which to make
probability statements about the true (but unknown) value of the population mean
e. when sample data are used for estimating a population mean, sampling error will not be present
since the observed sample statistic will not differ from the actual value of the population parameter
Answer: E
2. Inferential statistics is the:
a. process of using a population parameter to estimate the values for sample statistics
c. process which allows the researcher to determine the exact values for population parameters
Answer: B
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b. a point estimate is an unbiased estimator if its standard deviation is the same as the actual value of
Answer: C
Answer: C
b. an interval estimate describes a range of values that is likely not to include the actual population
parameter
Answer: A
b. a lower and upper confidence limit associated with a specific level of confidence
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d. a lower and upper confidence limit that has a 95% probability of containing the population
parameter
Answer: B
a. probability that a confidence interval does not contain the population parameter
Answer: C
8. A 95% confidence interval for the population mean is calculated to be 75.29 to 81.45. If the
confidence level is reduced to 90%, the confidence interval will:
a. become narrower
c. become wider
d. double in size
e. most likely no longer include the true value of the population mean
Answer: A
9. A 95% confidence interval for the population mean is calculated to be 75.29 to 81.45. If the
a. become narrower
c. become wider
d. double in size
e. most likely no longer include the true value of the population mean
Answer: C
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10. In the formula for the confidence interval, zα/2 is part of the formula. What does the subscript α/2
refer to?
c. the probability that the confidence interval will contain the population mean
d. the probability that the confidence interval will not contain the population mean
e. the area in the lower tail or upper tail of the sampling distribution of the sample mean
Answer: E
11. Which of the statements below completes the following statement correctly? The larger the level of
confidence used in constructing a confidence interval estimate of the population mean, the:
a. smaller the probability that the confidence interval will contain the population mean
e. the more the width of the confidence interval remains the same
Answer: D
b. A 90% confidence interval for the population mean is narrower than a 95% confidence interval for
c. As the population standard deviation increases, the confidence interval becomes narrower
d. If α = 0.01, it implies that we are 1% confident that the population mean will lie between the
confidence limits
Answer: B
a. Confidence levels
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e. Significance levels
Answer: D
14. What value of z would you use to calculate the 80% confidence interval for a population mean,
given that you know the population standard deviation, the sample size and the sample mean of your
sample?
a. z = 1.96
b. z = 2.58
c. z = 0.84
d. z = 1.28
e. z = 1.645
Answer: D
15. Which of the following statements is false with regards to the width of a confidence interval?
a. The sample mean from which the interval is constructed is located half way between the
b. The width of the interval increases when the sample size is decreased
c. The width of the interval decreases when the significance level is increased
d. The width of the interval decreases when the sample mean is decreased
e. The width of the interval increases when the confidence level is increased
Answer: D
16. After constructing a confidence interval estimate for a population mean, you believe that the
interval is useless because it is too wide. In order to correct this problem, you need to:
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Answer: B
17. The problem with relying on a point estimate of a population parameter is that the point estimate
a. has no variance
b. might be unbiased
d. does not tell us how close or far the point estimate might be from the parameter
Answer: D
18. A federal auditor for nationally chartered banks from a random sample of 100 accounts found
that the average demand deposit balance at the First National Bank of a small town was R549.82. If
the auditor needed a point estimate for the population mean for all accounts at this bank, what would
she use?
d. She would survey the total of all accounts and determine the mean.
Answer: A
a. If the significance level is equal to 0.1, it implies that we are 10% confident that the population
c. As the population standard deviation increases, the confidence interval becomes narrower
d. A 90% confidence interval for the population mean is narrower than a 95% confidence interval for
e. Increasing the significance level increases the width of the confidence interval
Answer: D
20. Sand is packed into bags which are then weighed on scales. It is known that if full bags of sand are
intended to weigh μ kg, then the weight recorded by the scales will be normally distributed with a
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mean μ kg and a standard deviation of 0.36kg. A particular bag of sand was weighed four times and
the weight recorded each time was different. The sample mean weight was recorded as 34.7kg. What
is a 95% confidence interval for the true weight of the full bag of sand?
a. 34.35 to 35.05kg
b. 35.85 to 36.55kg
c. 34.21 to 35.19kg
d. 34.48 to 34.92kg
e. 37.75 to 38.45kg
Answer: A