MCQ Bank
What is the highest value of the CDF of a distribution?
- A) Depends on X
- B) 0
- C) 1
- D) 0.5
What does the CDF of a die roll represent?
- A) Most frequent value
- B) Probability up to a certain value
- C) Total possible scores
- D) Sum of all outcomes
When do we get the product of two expectations?
- A) Both functions must be linear
- B) Functions are identical
- C) Variables are dependent
- D) Variables are independent
What type of function is used for discrete random variables?
- A) probbaility mass function
- B) density function
- C) probability density function
- D) integral function
How do we define the range of X in general form of PMF?
- A) From a to b
- B) From a fixed point to infinity
- C) Between -1 and +1
- D) From 0 to 1 only
Which value of n is used in the PMF from a to b?
- A) b/a
- B) a+b
- C) b−a+1
- D) b−a
The graph of the CDF of disccrete uniform distribution is a ---------- function.
- A) Straight line
- B) Steps
- C) U shape
- D) Bridge
What type of experiment leads to a binomial distribution?
- A) Multiple possible outcomes
- B) Repeating until failure
- C) Continuous measurement
- D) One with fixed number of trials
How is independence shown using CDFs?
- A) Evaluating limits of CDFs
- B) Multiplying pdfs
- C) Checking if joint CDF equals product of marginals
- D) Comparing variances
Which real-life object is an example of uniform distribution?
- A) Loaded die
- B) Biased coin
- C) Unfair spinner
- D) Fair die
The law of total expectation is also known as:
- A) law of simple expectation
- B) law of iterated expectations
- C) law of independent events
- D) law of conditional density
What does M(t₁, t₂) represent in probability theory?
- A) Median of X₁ and X₂
- B) Moment generating function of joint distribution
- C) Mode of X₁ and X₂
- D) Mean of X₁ and X₂
What is the condition on the probability of success in a binomial setting?
- A) Randomly chosen
- B) Changes over trials
- C) Varies by person
- D) Remains constant
What does the PMF of a discrete uniform distribution assign to each value?
- A) Random probability
- B) Maximum value
- C) Equal probability
- D) Zero value
What does the product of marginals represent if variables are independent?
- A) Conditional probability
- B) Marginal pdf
- C) Expected value
- D) Joint pdf
Sum of n independent Exponential random variables (λ) results in __________
- A) Uniform random variable
- B) Normal random variable
- C) Binomial random variable
- D) Gamma random variable
A random variable X has an exponential distribution with probability distribution function is given by f(x)= 3e-3x for x>0 = 0 otherwise Find probability that X is not less than 2?
- A) e-6
- B) e-6-1
- C) e-3
- D) e-6 -3
The mean of exponential distribution is given as __________
- A) $\mu$
- B) $(\mu)^2$
- C) $\frac{1}{\mu}$
- D) $\frac{1}{\mu^2}$
Consider a random variable with exponential distribution with λ=1. Compute the probability for P (X>3)?
- A) e-2
- B) e-1
- C) e-4
- D) e-3
Let X∼U(a=3,b=9) be a continuous uniform random variable. What is the mean and variance of X?
- A) Mean = 5, Variance = 3
- B) Mean = 6, Variance = 6
- C) Mean = 6, Variance = 3
- D) Mean = 6, Variance = 9