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COSM Objective Question Bank

Unit 3,4 and 5

1 The area under the normal cuve is

a) 1 b) >1
[ ]
c) <1 d) 0
2 The totality of the observation is called
a) Population b) Sample [ ]
c) Parameter d) None
3 The number of possible samples of size n out of N population units without
replacement is
[ ]
a) Ncn n
b) N
1 d) None
c)
Ncn
4 The finite population correction factor is
nN b)
N -n [ ]
a)
N 1 N -n
N -1 d)None
c)
N -n
If p(z  1.76)  ……………
5

a) 0.5+ P(0  z  1.76) 0.5- P(0  z  1.76) [ ]

c) P(0  z  1.76) d) None
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f x  157,   155,   15 and n  36 then z is
[ ]
a) 0.8 b) 0.6
c) 0.08 d) None
7 The sample of size 4 has values 25,28,26,25. Then variance of the sample is
[ ]
a) 2 b) 2.5
c) 4.2 d) None
8 The marks of 5 students in one subject are 45, 47,49,61,48 and mean of the population
is 52 then t= ……………
[ ]
0.7 b) 0.5
c) 0.6 d) None
9 If we can assert with 95% that the maximum error is 0.5 and p=0.2 then the sample size
is confidence is
a) 122 b) 244 [ ]

c) 256 d) 269
10 A hypothesis is true, but is rejected, this is an error of type
a) I b) II [ ]
c) I and II d) none
11 A hypothesis is false, but accepted, this is an error of type
a) I b) II [ ]
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c) I and II d) none
12 In a random sample of 160 workers exposed to a certain amount of radiation 24
experienced some ill effects. The 99% confidence interval for the true proportion is
a) (0,065,0.234) b) (0.65,0.23)
c) (0.56,0.023) d) None [ ]
13 Which of the following matrices are stochastic?
 1 0   1 0 
a)   b)  
1/ 2 1/ 2   1/ 2 1/ 2  [ ]
 1 1   1 2 
c)   d)  
1/ 2 1/ 2  1/ 2 1/ 2 
14 0 1
If the tpm of a Markov chain is  1 1  then the steady state distribution of the chain is

2 2 [ ]
a) (1/3,1/3) b) (1/2,1/2)
c) (1/2,1/3) d) (1/3,2/3)
15 A stochastic matrix P is said to be regular if P m is
a) positive b) negative [ ]
c) 0 d) none

II. Fill in the Blanks in the space provided.

16 The Variance of the Normal curve is___________________

17 Test statistic for F distribution if S22  S12

18 In small samples to test the significance of the difference between sample mean 𝑥 𝑎𝑛𝑑 population
mean µ, the test statistic is_______________________

19 Sampling distribution of means (  known),the samples are drawn from infinite population then
standard deviation of means is __________________________
20 Sampling distribution of means (  un-known),t-distribution value_____________

21 F1 (1 , 2 )  __________

22 E ( x ) = 𝜇 then x is called…………………

23 A population random variable has mean 100 and S.D 16 what are the mean and S.D of sample
mean for the
random sample of size 4 drawn with replacement is…....................
24 If A.H is not equal type then which test we consider____________________

25 In Critical region the Null hypothesis is (Accept/Reject)____________________________

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26 A state 𝑖 is called Ergodic if 𝑖 is_____________________

27 A state 𝑖 is said to be absorbing state if and only if____________________

28 Suppose that the probability of a dry day (state 0) follows a rainy day(state 1) is 1/3 and the
probability of rain day follows a dry day is ½ then tpm is………………
29 A stochastic matrix P is said to be regular if all the entries of ___________________ are positive

30 If di  gcd(m, p m  0)  1 then state i is called_____________