MCQ Bank
$${\text{The mean of the sampling distribution of }}\overline x _1 - \overline x _2 {\text{, denoted by }}\mu _{\overline x _1 - \overline x _2 } {\text{is equal to the difference between repective}}$$
- A) Population Means
- B) Sample Means
- C) Sample Proportions
- D) Population Proportions
The width of the confidence interval is called______ of the estimate.
- A) Accuracy
- B) Biased
- C) Precision
- D) Unbiasedness
If sampling is from a normal population, the mean of the sampling distribution of the sampled means is equal to:
- A) The mean of the sampled population
- B) sigma the standard deviation of the population
- C) s/(n-1)
- D) б/√n
If we draw a sample of size ‘n’ from a population then sample is called “large sample" if:
- A) n>50
- B) n>25
- C) n>40
- D) n>30
Consider a large population with a mean of 160 and a standard deviation of 20. A random sample of size 64 is taken from this population. What is the standard deviation of the sample mean?
- A) 3.125
- B) 3.568
- C) 1.654
- D) 2.500
P 0 1 2 3
f(p) 1/20 9/20 9/20 1/20
The mean of the sampling proportion will be:
- A) 10/20
- B) 25/20
- C) 15/20
- D) 30/20
The sampling distribution of the mean becomes approximately normally distributed only when the following conditions is met?
- A) A single random sample is drawn from the population.
- B) The sample size is large.
- C) The standard deviation of the population is large.
- D) The population is normally distributed.
A random sample of size n = 25 is drawn from a normal population with population mean = 50 and sigma = 10 then mean of the sampling distribution of the sample mean is:
- A) 50
- B) 2
- C) 45
- D) 25
Normal approximation to the binomial distribution is used when:
- A) None of the above
- B) Both of the above
- C) nq>5
- D) np>5
The precision of an estimator can be increased by decreasing the;
- A) Number of estimators
- B) Number of parameters
- C) Level of significance
- D) Size of sample
Total no. of possible samples of size 3 (with replacement) from the population of size 6, will be:
- A) 216
- B) 196
- C) 325
- D) 256
If Var(mean1) < Var(mean2) it implies:
- A) Mean1 is more consistent
- B) Mean1 is more efficient
- C) Mean2 is more efficient
- D) Mean2 is more consistent
The sampling distribution of the sample proportion, p^, will be ______ distributed if the sample size is large and p^ is not too close to 0 or l:
- A) Binomial
- B) Normal
- C) Poisson
- D) Approximately normal
Conventionally, the probability of making a type-II error is denoted by:
- A) a (alpha)
- B) б (sigma)
- C) Ɵ (theta)
- D) ß (beta)
A quantity obtained by applying certain rule or formula is known as
- A) Estimator
- B) Parameter
- C) Proportion
- D) Estimate
Conventionally, the probability of making a type-I error is denoted by which of the following symbol?
- A) ß (beta)
- B) s (sigma)
- C) ? (theta)
- D) a (alpha)
Ideally, the width of confidence interval should be
- A) 1
- B) 0
- C) 98
- D) 100
The probability distribution of the proportion of successes in all possible samples is called the:
- A) Sampling probability distribution
- B) Sampling distribution of Population proportions
- C) Sampling distribution
- D) Sampling distribution of sample proportions
In a Geometric distribution, Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE) for proportion (P) is equal to:
- A) Reciprocal of the mean
- B) Reciprocal of the sample variance
- C) Sample variance
- D) Sample mean
The difference between the value of the statistic and the value of the parameter is called ________________.
- A) Sampling Error
- B) Random Error
- C) Biased Error
- D) Standard Error