Statistics MCQ Practice

1.
Who is considered the “Father of Modern know the average size of ready made
Statistics”? garments?
(a) Grottfried Achenwale (a) Mean
(b) Mode
(b) John Tukey
(c) Median
(c) Ronald Aylmer Fisher
(d) None of these
(d) P.C. Mahalanabis
2. Pin code is an example of _______? 12. Which of the following is not a disadvantage
of using mean?
(a) Ratio data (a) It is affected by extreme values.
(b) Interval data (b) It cannot be computed in grouped data
(c) Ordinal data with open-ended class intervals.
(d) Nominal data (c) It does not possess the desired algebric
property.
3. Which measure of central tendency (d) None of the above
is best used for categorical data?
(a) Median 13. What is called the degree of peakedness or
(b) Mean flatness of a distribution?
(c) Mode (a) Skewness
(d) Standard deviation (b) Symmetry
(c) Dispersion
(d) Kurtosis
4. Observe the following information’s_______
i. Statistics cannot prove anything. 14. The moment about mean which is considered
ii. Statistics are aggregate of facts. as measure of dispersion and is equivalent to
iii. Statistics deals with only quantitative
variance is called ____ .
data.
(a) Fourth moment
Which one is correct? (b) Third moment
(a) i and ii (c) Second moment
(b) ii and iii
(d) First moment
(c) i and iii
(d) i,ii and iii
15. If mean=20, median=16 and sd=6, then what
5. The word Statistics have been derived from is the value of coefficient of skewness?
the Latin word_______. (a) -2 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 4
(a) Statistik
16. In a Mesokurtic distribution, μ4 = 3.What is
(b) Statista the value of the variance?
(c) Status (a) 81 (b) 27 (c) 9 (d) 1
(d) Statistique
6. Which quartile is called median?
(a) Q1 (b) Q2 (c) Q3 (d) Q4
7. In an asymmetrical distribution mean is 58 17. Observe the following statements:
i. Skewness studies the flatness or
and median is 61.What is the value of mode?
peakedness of the distribution
(a) 65 (b) 67 (c) 119 (d) 58.5 ii. A positively skewed distribution curve is
stretched more to the right than to the left.
8. The mean of 11 numbers is 7.One of the iii. If mean < mode, the distribution is
numbers, 13, is deleted. What is the mean of positively skewed.
the remaining 10 numbers?
(a) 7.7 (b) 6.4 (c) 6.0 (d) 5.8 Which one is correct?
(a) i and ii
Read the stem carefully and answer the (b) ii and iii
questions no.9 and 10. (c) i and iii
The following scores were obtained by eleven (d) i,ii and iii
footballers in a goal-shoot competition:
5, 3, 6, 8, 7, 8, 3, 11, 6, 3, 2 18. The first three moments of a distribution about
the mean are 0, 4 and 0.The distribution is ____
9. What is the median score? (a) Skewed to the left
(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 11 (b) Skewed to the right
(c) Symmetrical
10. What is the modal score?
(d) Mesokurtic
(a) 3 (b) 6 (c) 8 (d) 11
11. Which average would be most suitable to
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19. If the mean, standard deviation and (c) Starting and end periods
coefficient of skewness of a frequency (d) Starting periods
distribution are 60, 45 and -0.4 respectively,
then what is the value of mode of this 24. Secular trend can be measured by_______
frequency distribution? (a) Two methods
(b) Three methods
(a) 78 (b) 60 (c) 45 (d) 20 (c) Four methods
(d) Five methods
20. If the coefficient of kurtosis of a frequency
distribution is 3, the frequency curve will
be_______? 25. The second central moment is:
(a) Leptokurtic (a) zero
(b) Platykurtic (b) mean
(c) Mesokurtic (c) standard deviation
(d) None of the above (d) variance
21. Which of the following is correct in a

negatively skewed distribution?
(a) The AM is greater than the mode
(b) The AM is greater than the median
(c) Q3 – Median = Median – Q1
(d) Q3 – Median < Median – Q1
22. A time series data consists of−

i. short-term variations
ii. long-term variations
iii. irregular variations
Which one is correct?
(a) i and ii
(b) ii and iii
(c) i and iii
(d) i,ii and iii
23. In moving average method we cannot find

the trend values of some_______
(a) End periods
(b) Middle period
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