MCQ Bank
In research if two sets of data could come from two completely separate groups of participants. Which type of statistical tests will be appropriate for testing the tenability of null hypothesis?
- A) Post hoc test
- B) Repeated measure
- C) Independent t-test
- D) Wilcoxon T-test
ANOVA or F-test is also robust to moderate departures from normality when sample sizes are reasonably _______________ and are equal.
- A) Small
- B) Skewed
- C) Moderate
- D) Large
For two-way ANOVA, we calculate ___________ kinds of degrees of freedom.
- A) Two
- B) Three
- C) One
- D) Four
Which of the following is an advantage of ANOVA?
- A) All of the above
- B) It decides if the population mean is equal to a specific value or not
- C) It cannot tolerate data that is non-normal
- D) It performs all three comparisons simultaneously in one hypothesis test
The process of constructing a mathematical model or function that can be used to predict or determine one variable by another variable is called:
- A) Regression
- B) Correlation
- C) Residual
- D) Outlier plot
Which of the following is NOT an application of correlation coefficient?
- A) Prediction
- B) Variation
- C) Validity
- D) Reliability
What would be the best interpretation of Ho: ρ = 0?
- A) There is negative correlation
- B) There is no population correlation
- C) There is covariance
- D) There is real correlation
When there is a __________ linear relationship in Pearson correlation, every change in the X variable is accompanied by a corresponding change in the Y variable.
- A) Zero
- B) Positive
- C) Negative
- D) Perfect
Which of the following line has the smallest total squared error?
- A) Variable line
- B) Correlation line
- C) Best-fitting line
- D) Regression line
If two variables are moving in the same direction, it is called as____________ correlation.
- A) Linear
- B) Negative
- C) Positive
- D) Non-linear
Which of the following is a linear equation of a regression line?
- A) Y = b2 + aX
- B) Y = aX + b
- C) Y = x2 + ab
- D) Y = bX + a
Regression is a statistical technique for finding the best-fitting straight line for a set of data. This resulting straight line is called the ____________ line.
- A) Linear
- B) Residual
- C) Regression
- D) Correlation
Pearson's Correlation Analysis is also known as:
- A) Kruskal-Wallis Correlational Analysis
- B) Pearson's Product-Moment
- C) Chi-Squared Product-Moment
- D) Spearman's Correlation Analysis
Which of the following type of correlation measures the degree of monotonic relationship between two variables?
- A) Point-Biserial Correlation
- B) Phi-Coefficient
- C) Partial correlation
- D) Spearman Correlation
When the Pearson correlation formula is used with data from an ordinal scale (ranks), the result is called the _____________correlation.
- A) Point-Biserial Correlation
- B) Partial correlation
- C) Phi-Coefficient
- D) Spearman Correlation
Which of the following is a statistical technique that is used to measure and describe the relationship between two variables?
- A) T-test
- B) Standard deviation
- C) Mean
- D) Correlation
The population correlation is positive in a directional hypothesis. This type of hypothesis can be written statistically as:.
- A) H₁: ρ < 0
- B) H₁: ρ ≠ 0
- C) Hₒ: ρ ≤ 0
- D) Hₒ: ρ = 0
Which of the following refers to a hypothesis-testing procedure that is used to evaluate mean differences between two or more treatments (or populations)?
- A) Correlation
- B) Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
- C) Analysis of Regression
- D) Chi-square
Which of the following statistical technique allows a researcher to measure the relationship between two variables while eliminating the influence of a third variable?
- A) Phi-Coefficient
- B) Partial correlation
- C) Spearman Correlation
- D) Point-Biserial Correlation
Which of the following statement is true for the Pearson correlation?
- A) It measures the degree and the direction of the non-linear relationship between two or more variables.
- B) It measures the degree and the direction of the linear relationship between two variables.
- C) All of the above
- D) The relationship between two variables while controlling the influence of a third variable by holding it constant.