December 2015 - Paper 2

16:   Which one of the following is not a method of studying association of attributes?
A.

Concurrent Deviation Method

B.

Proportion Method

C.

Yule's Method

D.

Coefficient of Contingency

 
 

Option: A

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17:   Identify which of the following steps would be included in hypothesis testing:

(a) State the null and alternative hypothesis.

(b) Set the significance level before the research study.

(c) Eliminate all outliers.

(d) Obtain the probability value using a computer program such as SPSS.

(e) Compare the probability value to the significance level and make the statistical decision.
A.

(a), (c) and (d)

B.

(c), (d), and (e)

C.

(a), (b), (d) and (e)

D.

(b), (c), (d) and (e)

 
 

Option: C

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18:   Select the methods of finding out correlation from the following:

(a) Karl Pearson's Method

(b) Spearman's Rank Method

(c) Yule's Method

(d) Coefficient of Contingency

(e) Concurrent lJeviation Method
A.

(a), (b), (c)

B.

(a), (b), (c), (d)

C.

(a), (b), (e)

D.

(c), (d), (e)

 
 

Option: C

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(b) Spearman's Rank Method

(c) Yule's Method

(d) Coefficient of Contingency

(e) Concurrent lJeviation Method'>
19:   A set of data can be distinguished from other set of data by means of:
A.

Central value and dispersion

B.

Central value, dispersion and skewness

C.

Central value, dispersion, skewness and Kurtosis

D.

None of the above

 
 

Option: C

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20:   The advent of computers in research has led to :
A.

Limitations of options in analysis

B.

Tremendous amount of flexibility with marginal increase in cost

C.

Myopic exposure of statistics to the researcher

D.

None of the above

 
 

Option: B

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