This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Data Interpretation > Statistics – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Statistics Quiz 15 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Farmer Joe separates his apple tree farm into 10 regions. He counts the number of apples produced in just one of the regions and uses that estimate to predict the number of apples produced on the whole farm. This is ..... sampling. A) Systematic. B) Simple. C) Cluster. D) Stratified. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cluster. 2. The Statistics is concerned with: A) Aggregate of disorganised facts. B) Aggregate of qualitative facts. C) Aggregate of heterogeneous facts. D) Aggregate of numerical facts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aggregate of numerical facts. 3. What type of data will questions answerable by YES or NO generate? A) Statistical question. B) Statistics. C) Numerical data set. D) Categorical data. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Categorical data. 4. It is a numerical description of a sample characteristic A) Statistics. B) Statistic. C) Parameter. D) Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statistic. 5. The measure of closeness of the estimates to each other A) Point Estimate. B) Accuracy. C) Interval Estimate. D) Precision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Precision. 6. What refers to any procedure done to select samples? A) Sampling. B) Replication. C) Treatment. D) Experimentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sampling. 7. Seth said that 17 was the number that showed the difference between the lowest and highest numbers in a data set. Which term would define Seth's number? A) Median. B) Mode. C) Range. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Range. 8. In the data set below, what is the mean absolute deviation? 6, 5, 7, 2, 4, 8 A) 1.70. B) 1.73. C) 1.72. D) 1.71. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1.71. 9. What measure represents the value that repeats the most A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 10. Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:3, 4, 5, 4, 5 A) Mode. B) Median. C) Range. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mean. 11. Before a nation wide election, a polling place was trying to see who would win.Which choice best represents the statistic? A) A selection of voters over age 50. B) All voters. C) The percentage of voters in favor of the candidate. D) 53% of the selection of voters support the candidate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 53% of the selection of voters support the candidate. 12. A variable that categorizes or describes an element of a population. A) Parameter. B) Sample. C) Quantitative Variable. D) Qualitative Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Qualitative Variable. 13. This occurs when a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population are less likely to be included than others. A) Sampling error. B) Sampling bias. C) Random sampling. D) Clustered sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sampling bias. 14. This Part of the survey asks the respondent certain important personal details. A) Introduction. B) Profile of the Respondent. C) Questions to Answer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Profile of the Respondent. 15. The area under the normal curve is ..... A) 1. B) 0.95. C) 0.99. D) 0.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1. 16. To find the ..... you put all the numbers in order from least to greatest and then see which number you have the most of. A) Median. B) Mode. C) Range. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mode. 17. It involves describing the data using statistical methods and procedures. A) Organization. B) Collection. C) Interpretation. D) Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analysis. 18. The nature of statistics is: A) Science. B) Art. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both (a) and (b). 19. When finding median and the middle has two numbers instead of one, what do you do? A) Take the higher number. B) Take the lower number. C) Take both. D) Take the mean of the two. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Take the mean of the two. 20. A ..... survey is one that encompasses errors caused by the design of the survey and its questions. A) Fun. B) School. C) Biased. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biased. 21. , 7-What is the range A) 6. B) 4. C) 3. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 22. An experiment is ..... A) A planned activity whose results yield a set of data. B) A numerical value that summarizes all of the data of an entire population. C) The set of values collected from the variable from each of the elements that belong to the sample. D) A numerical value summarizing the sample data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A planned activity whose results yield a set of data. 23. Which among the following is not part of measure of central tendency A) Mode. B) Mean. C) Range. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Range. 24. Mark Twain called statistics pliable, because you can adapt them to support any point. What does "pliable" mean? A) Trustworthy. B) Useful. C) Rigid. D) Flexible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flexible. 25. That part of the population from which information is collected. A) Variable. B) Population. C) Constant. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sample. 26. Careful use of statistical methods does not include ..... A) Carefully defining the situation. B) Gathering data. C) Summarizing the data accurately. D) Deriving and communicating meaningful conclusions. E) Throwing out data that does not fit the graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Throwing out data that does not fit the graph. 27. Statistics in singular sense means A) Statistical data. B) Statistical procedure. C) Statistical laws. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statistical procedure. 28. $ \mu$ means in statistics A) Sample s.d. B) Population mean. C) Population s.d. D) Sample mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population mean. 29. A quantitative variable that can assume a countable number of values. A) Ordinal Variable. B) Nominal Variable. C) Continuous Variable. D) Discrete Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discrete Variable. 30. A value that describes how data is centered. A) Measure of Center. B) Data. C) Statistics. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Measure of Center. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPaper 1 QuizzesUgc Net QuizzesStatistics Quiz 1Statistics Quiz 2Statistics Quiz 3Statistics Quiz 4Statistics Quiz 5Statistics Quiz 6Statistics Quiz 7Statistics Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books