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  • A. All possible
  • B. Constant
  • C. Accuracy
  • D. Specific

Explanation: A continuous variable can take any value within an interval, including fractional values such as 2.4 or 2.

Correct answer: All possible
  • A. Discrete
  • B. Specific
  • C. Continuous
  • D. Constant

Explanation: Measurements such as height, weight and time can vary by arbitrarily small amounts, so they generally produce continuous data.

Correct answer: Continuous
  • A. Quantitative
  • B. Primary
  • C. Discrete
  • D. Secondary

Explanation: Data collected originally by the agency that uses them are primary data.

Correct answer: Primary
  • A. Short run
  • B. Long run
  • C. Medium period
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Statistical laws describe regularities that emerge from a large number of observations, not necessarily from one short series.

Correct answer: Long run
  • A. Long run
  • B. Plural sense
  • C. indefinite
  • D. Short run

Explanation: Statistical regularities become dependable when repeated observations are considered over a long period or large number of trials.

Correct answer: Long run
  • A. variable
  • B. Attribute
  • C. Constant
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A characteristic that remains fixed and does not vary is called a constant.

Correct answer: Constant
  • A. Fisher
  • B. unavoidable
  • C. Feet
  • D. Achenwall

Explanation: Gottfried Achenwall is generally credited with first using the term “statistics” in the eighteenth century during lectures at a German…

Correct answer: Achenwall
  • A. Inferential
  • B. Descriptive
  • C. Collection
  • D. Two

Explanation: Descriptive statistics summarises data through collection, organisation, presentation, and analysis without drawing broader population…

Correct answer: Descriptive
  • A. Biology
  • B. Three reasons
  • C. Hands
  • D. Physics

Explanation: Many modern statistical techniques developed in response to practical problems in biology, especially variation, heredity, and population…

Correct answer: Biology
  • A. In each case
  • B. Average
  • C. Facts
  • D. Field

Explanation: Statistical laws usually describe regularities for groups and are therefore true on average, not necessarily for every individual case.

Correct answer: Average
  • A. One
  • B. Four
  • C. More than value
  • D. Resindent

Explanation: A constant has one fixed value throughout the situation being studied. A quantity that can assume different values is a variable.

Correct answer: One
  • A. Research
  • B. Statistical
  • C. Secondary
  • D. Primary

Explanation: Primary data are collected firsthand by the investigator for the specific study, such as through surveys or experiments.

Correct answer: Primary
  • A. 1/10
  • B. 1/1000
  • C. 1/100
  • D. 100

Explanation: A proportion is expressed as a percentage by multiplying it by 100, since percentage means “per hundred.” For example, 0.35 becomes 35%.

Correct answer: 100
  • A. Attribute
  • B. Discrete variable
  • C. Continuous variable
  • D. Constant

Explanation: Marital status is an attribute because it describes a qualitative characteristic such as single, married, or widowed.

Correct answer: Attribute
  • A. Mode
  • B. Mean
  • C. Median
  • D. Mid Point

Explanation: The median is the central value after the observations are arranged in order.

Correct answer: Median
  • A. Percentiles
  • B. Deciles
  • C. Median
  • D. Quartiles
  • E. Standard Deviation

Explanation: Quartiles divide ordered data into four equal parts, producing Q1, Q2, and Q3 as the dividing points.

Correct answer: Quartiles
  • A. Discrete Variable
  • B. Continuous Variable
  • C. Qualitative Variable
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Weight is measured on a continuous scale because it can take fractional values such as 52.4 kg or 52.45 kg.

Correct answer: Continuous Variable
  • A. Discrete variable
  • B. Continuous variable
  • C. Qualitative variable
  • D. Constant

Explanation: The number of accidents is a count and can take only whole-number values such as 0, 1, or 2.

Correct answer: Discrete variable
  • A. Raw data
  • B. Array data
  • C. Secondary data
  • D. Fictitious data

Explanation: Secondary data are data previously collected by another person or organization for a different or broader purpose.

Correct answer: Secondary data
  • A. Population data
  • B. Sample data
  • C. Test statistics
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A parameter describes a population, so it is computed using population data.

Correct answer: Population data