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1. Who founded the Indian Statistical Institute?*
Karl Pearson
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Ronald A. Fisher
2. Who is considered as the father of Indian Statistics?*
David Blackwell
Mario Marazzi
P.C Mahalanobis
3. Which of the following is a branch of statistics?*
Descriptive statistics
Inferential statistics
Both A and B
4. In which year was Indian Statistical Institute established?*
1931
1941
1951
5. World Statistics Day is celebrated on __________?*
21st October
20 th October
22nd November
6. National Statistics Day is celebrated on _________?*
29th June
29th JuLY
29th January
7. Who coined the term ‘statistics’?*
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
David Blackwell
Sir John Sinclair
8. Who is known as the father of modern statistics and experimental design?*
Sir Ronald Fisher
Nate Silver
Susan Murphy
9. The control charts and procedures of descriptive statistics which are used to enhance a procedure can be classified into which of these categories?*
Behavioural tools
Serial tools
Statistical tools
10. What are the variables whose calculation is done according to the weight, height, and length known as?*
Continuous variables
Discrete variables
Measuring variables
11. Which method used to examine inflation rate anticipation, unemployment rate, and capacity utilisation to produce products?*
Forecasting technique
Data importing technique
Data exporting technique
12. What is the scale applied in statistics, which imparts a difference of magnitude and proportions, is considered as?*
Exponential scale
Ratio scale
Goodness scale
13. Review of performance appraisal, labour turnover rates, planning of incentives, and training programs are the examples of which of the following?*
Statistics in marketing
Statistics in finance
Statistics in personnel management
14. If the class mid points in a frequency distribution of age of a group of persons are 25, 32, 39,46, 53 and 60. The size of class interval is:*
5
07
8
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15. The most commonly used device of presenting business and economic data is:
Pie diagrams
Pictograms
Bar diagrams
16. A batsman score runs in 10 innings as 38, 70, 48, 34, 42, 55, 63, 46, 54 and 44. The meandeviation about mean is*
8.6
6.4
10.6
17. In a moderately symmetric distribution mean, median and mode are connected by:*
Mode = 2 median – 3 mean
Mode = 3 median – 4 mean
Mode = 3 median – 2 mean
18. Three groups of observations contain 8, 7 and 5 observations. Their geometric means are8.52, 10.12 and 7.75. Find the geometric mean of the 20 observations in the single group formed by pooling the three groups is:*
7.831
9.643
19. Twenty passengers were found ticketless on a bus. The sum of squares and the standarddeviation of the amount found in their pockets were Rs.2,000 and Rs.6. If the total fine imposedon these passengers is equal to the total amount recovered from them and fine imposed isuniform, what is the amount each one has to pay as fine?*
5
06
8
20. Mean of 10 items is 50 and S.D is 14. Find the sum of squares of all items
26543
26960
27814
21. . Numerical facts are usually subjected to statistical analysis with a view to helping a decisionmaker make wise decisions in the face of ___________________.*
Interpreting
Uncertainty
Summarizing
22. In statistics, ___________________________ classification includes data according to thetime period in which the items under consideration occurred.
Chronological
Alphabetical
Geographical
23. The method of sampling, in which the choice of sample items depends exclusively on thejudgement of the investigator is termed as ________________________.*
Quota sampling
Systematic sampling
Judgement sampling
24. . In ___________________ type of classification, the data is grouped together according to some distinguished characteristic or attribute, such as religion, sex, age, national origin, and soon.*
Quantitative
Qualitative
Chronological
25. In the statistical table column headings are called:
Stubs
Captions
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