This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Data Interpretation > Statistics – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Statistics Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Descriptive Statistics is useful for A) Comparing the statistical events. B) Comparing two different samples. C) Describing the quantitative characteristics of variables. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Describing the quantitative characteristics of variables. 2. Mrs. Gillihan asked each student in her class these four questions. Which of the following questions is statistical? A) How many times do you exercise each week?. B) How many laps around the school track is equivalent to a mile?. C) How many cups are in a gallon?. D) How many hershey chocolate bars come in a package for s'mores?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How many times do you exercise each week?. 3. A graph that displays the highest and lowest quarters of data as whiskers, the middle two quarters of the data as a box, and the median. A) Line Graph. B) Data. C) Histogram. D) Box Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Box Plot. 4. What is the MEDIAN of a data set? A) The middle value. B) The number that occurs most frequently. C) The average. D) The difference between the max and min values. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The middle value. 5. A finite population is one that ..... A) Can be physically listed. B) The membership in the population is unlimited. C) Ends abruptly due to a catastrophy. D) Ends abruptly due to natural causes, such as a flood or the ice age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can be physically listed. 6. Numerical value obtained from applying the estimator using the sample data; can be a value or range of values that approximate a parameter A) Estimate. B) Estimator. C) Estimation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estimate. 7. What are characteristics that cannot be defined by a number, such as shape or color? A) Categorical variables. B) Numerical variables. C) Inferential statistics. D) Descriptive statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Categorical variables. 8. A science of collection, presentation of data. A) Population. B) Statistics. C) Analysis of Data. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statistics. 9. What do you call a number that describes a population statistics? A) Sample statistic. B) Variable. C) Distribution. D) Parameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parameter. 10. The entire group of objects or individuals considered for a survey. A) Biased sample. B) Population. C) Random sample. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Population. 11. Refers to the organization of data into tables, graphs and charts. A) Collection of Data. B) Collation of Data. C) Presentation of Data. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Presentation of Data. 12. The sum of the deviations of the scores from mean is always ..... A) 1. B) 2. C) 0. D) -1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0. 13. Your age is an example of? A) Quantitative/ numeric data. B) Qualitative/categorical data. C) Quantitative and discrete. D) Quantitative and continuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quantitative and continuous. 14. Raw, unprocessed facts and figures are known as A) Information. B) Wisdom. C) Data. D) Knowledge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data. 15. Statistics is concerned with .....? A) Qualitative information. B) Quantitative information. C) Either a or b. D) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both a and b. 16. The average value (statistic) deviates from the parameter A) Biased Estimate. B) Negative Bias. C) Unbiased Estimate. D) Positive Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biased Estimate. 17. What is the term in statistics for the entire collection or group of individuals being studied? A) Statistic. B) Parameter. C) Population. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Population. 18. The following are uses of line graphs EXCEPT A) When you want to show trends. For example, how house prices have increased over time. B) When you want to make predictions based on a data history over time. C) When comparing two or more different variables, situations, and information over a given period of time. D) When showing percentage or proportional data. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When showing percentage or proportional data. 19. Identify the VARIABILITY in the following question:What are the heights of the students at Clarke Middle School? A) Clarke Middle School. B) Students. C) Ages. D) Heights. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heights. 20. In statistics, it is the characteristic, property or attribute that makes members of a group vary. A) Polynomic. B) Discrete. C) Continuous. D) Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Variable. 21. Find the z-score for 62 given a mean of 30 and a standard deviation of 20. A) -11.6. B) 1.6. C) 11.6. D) -1.6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1.6. 22. A sample in which each individual or object in the entire population has an equal chance of being selected. A) Biased sample. B) Population. C) Random sample. D) Sample. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Random sample. 23. Coefficient of correlation will be always will always be A) More than 0. B) More than-1. C) More than 1. D) Between-1 and 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between-1 and 1. 24. If a question is statistical what does it have A) Data. B) Data without variability. C) Data with variability. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Data with variability. 25. Which interval shows 68% of the data given a mean of 15 and a standard deviation of 3? A) 9 to 21. B) 6 to 24. C) 12 to 18. D) 13 to 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12 to 18. 26. Mrs. Trahan samples her class by selecting every third person on her class list. Which type of sampling method is this? A) Stratified. B) Simple. C) Systematic. D) Cluster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Systematic. 27. What is the mode of the following data set:1, 2, 2, 2, 5, 9 A) 1. B) 2. C) 9. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 28. Statistics is defined in terms of statistical method in the ..... A) Singular sense. B) Plural sense. C) Either a or b. D) Both a and b. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Singular sense. 29. Marianne wanted to know students' opinion on the new schedule at school. So she randomly selected 2 students from each class during second period. This is a form of: A) Convenience Sampling. B) Simple Random Sampling. C) Stratified Random Sampling. D) Cluster Sampling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratified Random Sampling. 30. It consists of the collection, organization, summation, and presentation of data. A) Statistics. B) Probability. C) Descriptive Statistics. D) Inferential Statistics. 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