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MA3391 / PROBALITY AND STATISTICS
Question Bank =1 – CIA-II
PART – A
1. State any two properties of Maximum likelihood estimators.
2. Explain point estimation
3. Give the advantage of non – parametric test.
4. State the basic assumption made in non- parametric tests
5. Define run test and uses of run test
6. How is Mann-Whitney U –test different from Kruskal – Wallis test
7. Define statistical quality control
8. What are the lower control limits and upper control limits of c chart?
9. Define tolerance limits
10. Distinguish between p-chart and c-chart

PART – B
1. Find the maximum likelihood estimator of the parameter  in the population is given by
x
1 
f  x,    p p 1
x e  , x  0, p  0 with p is known. Also find its variance.
   p
2. In a random sampling from normal population N  ,  2  . Find the MLE for
(i)  when  2 known and (ii)  2 when  is known
3. Ten ball bearing made by a certain process have a mean diameter of 0.5060 cm. with a standard deviation
of 0.0040 cm. assuming that the data may be taken as a random sample from a normal population, construct
a 95% confidence interval for the actual average diameter of the ball bearing?
4. The average monthly electricity consumption for a sample of 100 families is 1250 units. Assuming the
standard deviation of electric consumption of all families is 150 units, construct a 95% confidence interval
estimate of the actual mean electric consumption
5. The following data represent the number of hours that a rechargeable hedge trimmer operates before a
recharges is required:
1.5, 2.2, 0.9, 1.3, 2.0, 1.6, 1.8, 1.5, 2.0, 1.2, 1.7.
Use the sign test to test the hypothesis, at the 0.05 level of significance, that this particular trimmer
operates a median of 1.8 hours before requiring a recharge.
6. Two classes of students are tested using certain competitive exam. The score of a sample of students from
each class is given below.
Class A 45 44 47 48 55 53 55 63
Class B 65 67 77 65 56 67 78 55 66 65 58
Use Mann Whithey – U test to test whether both classes have similar scholastic levels.

7. Drop in diastolic blood pressure (in mm mercury)

Drug A 10 16 10 4 2 14 4
Drug B 33 34 41 36 42 42 32
Test whether there is any difference in the effectiveness of drugs at 0.05 level of significance.
Using Wilcoxon’s signed rank test (Table value for n =7 is 2)
8. With reference to the given data
Brand A 14.9 11.3 13.2 16.6 17.0 14.1 15.4 13.0 16.9

Brand B 15.2 19.8 14.7 18.3 16.2 21.2 18.9 12.2 15.3 19.4

Use the U-test at the 0.01 level of significance to test the two samples come from identical continuous
population or whether the average burning time of Brand A flares is less than that of Brand B flares.
9. Three samples of students are weighted. The results are as follows
Group A 67 66 75 85 55 79 95 93
Group B 55 58 67 63 62 69 72
Group C 48 53 55 61 49 58 57 64 66
Use Kruskal Walis test to check whether all three groups have similar weights.
10. In 30 tosses of a coin the following sequence of heads (H) and tails (T) is obtained.
H TT H T HHH T HH TT H T H T HH T H TT H T HH T H T
(i)Determine the number of runs
(ii)Test at the 0.05 significance level whether the sequence is random.
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11. An experiment designed to compare three preventative methods against corrosion yielded the following
maximum depths of pits ( in thousands of an inch) in pieces of wire subjected to the respective treatments.

Method A 77 54 67 74 71 66
Method B 60 41 59 65 62 64 52
Method C 49 52 69 47 56
Use Kruskal Walis test to at the 5% level of significance to test the null hypothesis that the three samples
come from identical population.
12. Test whether the following numbers 0.44, 0.81, 0.14, 0.05, 0.93 are uniformly distributed using
Kolmogorov – Smirnov test.
13. Given below are the values of sample mean X and the sample range R for 10 samples. Each of size 5.
Calculated the state of control of the process using the appropriate mean and range charts.

Sample No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Mean 43 49 37 44 45 37 51 46 43 47
Range 5 6 5 7 7 4 8 6 4 6

14. 15 tape recorders were examined for quality control test. The number of defects in each tape-recorder is
recorded below. Draw the appropriate control chart and comment on the state of control.
Unit No. (i): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
No. of defects(c): 2 4 3 1 1 2 5 3 6 7 3 1 4 2 1

15. Construct a control chart for the proportion of defective for the following data.
Comment on the nature of process

Sample No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
No. of inspected 90 65 85 70 80 80 70 95 90 75
No. of defectives 9 7 3 2 9 5 3 9 6 7

16. The data given below are the number of defectives in 10 samples of 100 items each. Construct a p-chart
and an np-chart and comment on the result.
Sample No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
No. of defectives 6 16 7 3 8 12 7 11 11 4

17. 10 samples each of size 50 were inspected and the number of defectives in the inspection were:
2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 1, 2, 3. Construct a p-chart and np-chart for each sample. Assuming special causes for
out of control points, find the revised control limits.
18. The following are the figures for the number of defectives of 10 samples each containing 100 items:
8,10,9,8,10,11,7,9,6,12. Draw the control chart for fraction defective and comment on the state of
control of the process.

19. The specifications for the certain quality characteristics are  60  24  in coded values. The table given
below gives the measurements obtained in 10 samples. Find the tolerance limits for the process and test if
the process meets the specifications.

Sample No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
75 48 57 61 55 49 74 67 66 62
66 79 55 71 68 98 63 70 65 68
50 53 53 66 58 65 62 68 58 66
Measurments (X):
62 61 61 69 62 64 57 56 52 68
52 49 72 77 75 66 62 61 58 73
70 56 63 53 63 64 64 66 50 68

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