Free Descriptive Statistics MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Boundary
  • B. Class mark
  • C. None of these
  • D. Class interval

Explanation: The class interval describes the width or range of a class, commonly obtained from the difference between its limits.

Correct answer: Class interval
  • A. Primary
  • B. Secondary
  • C. Ungroup data
  • D. Group data

Explanation: Technical and trade journals publish information previously collected and made available by another source, so using them provides…

Correct answer: Secondary
  • A. Two
  • B. Three
  • C. Four
  • D. Five

Explanation: A basic statistical table has at least four essential parts: the title, captions, stubs, and body.

Correct answer: Four
  • A. Box head
  • B. Column captions
  • C. Caption
  • D. Row caption

Explanation: The stub is the part of a table containing the row headings or row captions, usually placed in the first column.

Correct answer: Row caption
  • A. Frequency distribution
  • B. Classification
  • C. Table
  • D. Tabulation

Explanation: Tabulation is the process of arranging data systematically in rows and columns.

Correct answer: Tabulation
  • A. Class interval
  • B. Class frequency
  • C. Class boundaries
  • D. Class mark

Explanation: A histogram places class boundaries or continuous class intervals on the X-axis and frequencies on the Y-axis.

Correct answer: Class boundaries
  • A. Class interval
  • B. Open interval
  • C. Size
  • D. Mid point

Explanation: The midpoint is found by averaging the lower and upper class limits, so it divides the class interval into two equal parts.

Correct answer: Mid point
  • A. Component bar chart
  • B. Multiple bar chart
  • C. Pie Chart
  • D. Simple Bar chart

Explanation: A pie chart divides a circle into sectors whose sizes represent the components of a whole.

Correct answer: Pie Chart
  • A. Histrogram
  • B. Frequency Polgon
  • C. Ogive
  • D. None of above

Explanation: An ogive is the graph of a cumulative frequency distribution. A histogram and frequency polygon represent ordinary frequency…

Correct answer: Ogive
  • A. Same
  • B. Different
  • C. Identical
  • D. Non-identical

Explanation: Footnotes explain special information about entries in a table, whereas source notes identify where the data came from.

Correct answer: Different
  • A. Interval
  • B. Histogram
  • C. Limits
  • D. Marks

Explanation: The class mark is found by adding the lower and upper class limits and dividing by 2: (lower limit + upper limit) / 2.

Correct answer: Marks
  • A. Raw
  • B. Cumulative frequency
  • C. Group
  • D. Arrangement

Explanation: Unsorted observations are called raw data because they have not yet been arranged or grouped.

Correct answer: Raw
  • A. Open-end
  • B. Distribution
  • C. Componemt
  • D. Unequal

Explanation: When the widths of class intervals differ, the distribution is described as having unequal class intervals.

Correct answer: Unequal
  • A. (n2 + 1)
  • B. (2n + 1)2
  • C. (n + 1)2
  • D. (N - 1)2

Explanation: For 2n + 1 ordered observations, the middle observation is in position (2n + 2)/2 = n + 1.

Correct answer: (n + 1)2
  • A. Uni-modal
  • B. Bi-model
  • C. Tri-modal
  • D. None of these

Explanation: A distribution with exactly two modes is called bimodal, because two values occur with the greatest frequency.

Correct answer: Bi-model
  • A. Median
  • B. Quartiles
  • C. Mode
  • D. Deciles

Explanation: The mode is the observation with the highest frequency, so it is the frequent value when such a value exists.

Correct answer: Mode
  • A. A.M.
  • B. G.M.
  • C. H.M.
  • D. Mode

Explanation: The arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means use every observation in their calculations.

Correct answer: Mode
  • A. A.M.
  • B. G.M.
  • C. Mode
  • D. None of these

Explanation: The geometric mean is the nth root of the product of all observations, so any zero makes that product zero and the geometric mean zero.

Correct answer: G.M.
  • A. Mean
  • B. Median
  • C. Mode
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Deviations from the arithmetic mean balance exactly: positive and negative deviations sum to zero.

Correct answer: Mean
  • A. A.M.
  • B. Mode
  • C. H.M.
  • D. G.M.

Explanation: The usual real-valued geometric mean is defined for non-negative observations, so a negative value makes it unavailable under the standard…

Correct answer: G.M.