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HAT Subject (Statistics) – FLP 1 consists of 100 MCQs covering 1 subjects. You have 120 minutes to complete it. Start with the easier questions and manage your time wisely. Good luck!
Statistics 100 MCQs
1. What does descriptive statistics do?
2. What is the most frequent value in a dataset?
3. What measures the spread of data around the mean?
4. What plot shows the relationship between two numerical variables?
5. What measures how many standard deviations a value is from the mean?
6. What measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship?
7. What plot displays data while preserving individual values?
8. What variable is manipulated by the experimenter?
9. What variable is measured to determine the effect?
10. What design assigns subjects to treatments randomly?
11. What design is used when some factors are hard to change?
12. What design has all combinations of factor levels?
13. What is the assignment of treatments to experimental units by chance?
14. What is the grouping of experimental units to control variability?
15. What occurs when the effects of factors cannot be separated?
16. What compares the between-group variance to the within-group variance?
17. What ANOVA has one factor with multiple levels?
18. What test checks the homogeneity of variances assumption?
19. What test checks the normality assumption?
20. What does a small p-value indicate?
21. What is the probability of rejecting a false null hypothesis?
22. Which test is used for small samples with unknown variance?
23. What is the range of values for which H0 is rejected?
24. What can be used for hypothesis testing by checking if the parameter value is included?
25. What is another method for hypothesis testing?
26. What is a measure of effect size for factorial ANOVA?
27. What is a multivariate extension of ANOVA?
28. What measures the relationship between two sets of variables?
29. What represent the variance explained by each component in PCA?
30. What is used to evaluate clustering quality?
31. What is used to determine the optimal number of clusters?
32. What is another method for determining the number of clusters?
33. What is the dimension of a matrix's column space?
34. What is a measure of a matrix's size?
35. What do probability distributions describe?
36. What are the parameters of the binomial distribution?
37. What distribution models the number of events in a fixed interval?
38. What are the parameters of the normal distribution?
39. What are the mean and standard deviation of the standard normal distribution?
40. What distribution has constant probability over an interval?
41. What is the parameter of the exponential distribution?
42. Which distribution is used for small samples when the variance is unknown?
43. Which distribution is used for variance tests?
44. Which distribution is used in ANOVA?
45. What distribution models the number of failures before a specified number of successes?
46. What is the Fourier transform of a distribution?
47. Which generating function is used for discrete distributions?
48. What is the shape of the normal distribution?
49. What is a process with uncertain outcomes called?
50. What function gives P(X ≤ x)?
51. What is the standard deviation?
52. What inequality bounds the probability of deviation from the mean?
53. What is regression analysis?
54. What is the equation of a simple linear regression line?
55. What measures the proportion of variance explained by the model?
56. What is the range of R²?
57. What penalizes the addition of unnecessary predictors?
58. What are the differences between observed and predicted values?
59. What does the Durbin-Watson test detect?
60. What occurs when independent variables are highly correlated?
61. What detects multicollinearity?
62. What does a high VIF indicate?
63. What test checks for normality of residuals?
64. Which regression is used when the dependent variable is binary?
65. What regression models the relationship between a dependent variable and multiple independent variables?
66. What tests the overall significance of the regression model?
67. Which regularization method adds a penalty to the coefficients?
68. What measures the influence of each observation in regression?
69. What is the basic form of random sampling?
70. What sampling method divides the population into homogeneous subgroups?
71. What is the list of all individuals in the population from which the sample is drawn?
72. What affects the precision of estimates?
73. What is the sample size formula for a mean?
74. What allocation minimizes the variance for a fixed sample size?
75. What adjusts the standard error when sampling without replacement from a finite population?
76. What means that each individual can be selected only once?
77. What is a resampling method that leaves out one observation at a time?
78. What is a resampling method used to assess model performance?
79. What is a numerical characteristic of a sample?
80. What is the standard deviation of a sampling distribution?
81. What is an interval estimate with a specified confidence level?
82. What is the probability that the confidence interval contains the true parameter?
83. What is the half-width of a confidence interval?
84. What states that the sample mean converges to the population mean?
85. What theorem provides a way to improve an estimator using a sufficient statistic?
86. What theorem states that the MVUE is a function of a complete sufficient statistic?
87. What is the joint probability of the data given the parameter?
88. What method finds the parameter value that maximizes the likelihood function?
89. What method estimates parameters by equating sample moments to population moments?
90. What uses prior and likelihood to obtain a posterior distribution?
91. What is a sequence of observations ordered by time?
92. What is a long-term increase or decrease in a time series?
93. What are fluctuations that occur over longer periods without fixed frequency?
94. What is the correlation between a time series and its lagged values?
95. What means the statistical properties are constant over time?
96. What model extends ARIMA to include seasonal components?
97. What is used for model selection in time series analysis?
98. What is a simple smoothing technique?
99. What is the difference between the actual and predicted values?
100. What is another measure of forecast accuracy?