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 point48. The relation showing between whole and its components used chart is said to be ___________________?
- 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.