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HAT Subject (Statistics) – FLP 2 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 is the most frequent value in a dataset?
2. What plot shows the relationship between two numerical variables?
3. What summarizes data by showing counts in each category?
4. What measures how many standard deviations a value is from the mean?
5. Which distribution does the empirical rule (68-95-99.7) apply to?
6. What measures the proportion of variance explained?
7. What variable is manipulated by the experimenter?
8. What group does not receive the treatment?
9. What design assigns subjects to treatments randomly?
10. What design studies the effects of two or more factors simultaneously?
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 repetition of an experiment to increase precision?
14. What is the grouping of experimental units to control variability?
15. What is used to analyze experimental data?
16. What compares the between-group variance to the within-group variance?
17. What ANOVA has two factors?
18. What are the assumptions of ANOVA?
19. What test checks the normality assumption?
20. What is a statement of no effect or no difference?
21. What is a statement of an effect or difference?
22. What is the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis?
23. What is a Type I error?
24. Which test is used for small samples with unknown variance?
25. Which test is used for categorical data?
26. What is a measure of effect size for the difference between two means?
27. What is another measure of effect size for ANOVA?
28. What contains the variances and covariances of variables?
29. What is a multivariate generalization of the t-test?
30. What measures the relationship between two sets of variables?
31. What is a multivariate distance measure?
32. What represent the variance explained by each component in PCA?
33. What builds a hierarchy of clusters?
34. What is used to evaluate clustering quality?
35. What is another method for determining the number of clusters?
36. What is a statistic used in MANOVA?
37. What is the sum of the diagonal elements of a matrix?
38. What distribution models the number of successes in n independent trials?
39. What distribution models the number of events in a fixed interval?
40. What is the parameter of the Poisson distribution?
41. What are the parameters of the normal distribution?
42. What are the mean and standard deviation of the standard normal distribution?
43. What distribution models the time between events?
44. Which distribution is used in ANOVA?
45. What continuous distribution on [0,1] has parameters α and β?
46. What distribution generalizes the exponential distribution?
47. What distribution models the number of trials until the first success?
48. What theorem states that sums approach a normal distribution?
49. What is the range of probability?
50. What is a process with uncertain outcomes called?
51. What is the multiplication rule for independent events?
52. What function is used for continuous random variables?
53. What is the expected value of a random variable?
54. What measures joint variability of two random variables?
55. What is a normalized measure of linear dependence?
56. What inequality bounds the probability of deviation from the mean?
57. What inequality relates convex functions to expectations?
58. What inequality bounds the inner product of two vectors?
59. What is regression analysis?
60. What measures the proportion of variance explained by the model?
61. What does the Durbin-Watson test detect?
62. What occurs when the variance of residuals is not constant?
63. What occurs when independent variables are highly correlated?
64. What test detects heteroskedasticity?
65. Which regression models relationships with higher-degree terms?
66. What is a method for variable selection?
67. What measures the influence of each observation in regression?
68. What measures the potential influence of an observation?
69. What are sampling techniques?
70. What ensures that every member has an equal chance of being selected?
71. What sampling method selects every kth element?
72. What sampling method selects individuals based on the researcher's judgment?
73. What is the error caused by observing a sample instead of the whole population?
74. What includes errors due to data collection, processing, and non-response?
75. What occurs when respondents provide inaccurate answers?
76. What occurs when selected individuals do not participate?
77. What allocation minimizes the variance for a fixed sample size?
78. What is a resampling method used to assess model performance?
79. What is a numerical characteristic of a population?
80. What is the half-width of a confidence interval?
81. What theorem states that the sample mean approaches a normal distribution?
82. What estimator contains all the information about the parameter?
83. What gives the minimum variance of an unbiased estimator?
84. What is the joint probability of the data given the parameter?
85. What represents beliefs before observing data?
86. What combines prior and likelihood?
87. What is a function of data and parameter whose distribution does not depend on the parameter?
88. What is time series analysis?
89. What is a regular pattern that repeats over fixed periods?
90. What are fluctuations that occur over longer periods without fixed frequency?
91. What are random or unpredictable fluctuations?
92. What measures the direct effect of a lag?
93. What test is used to test for stationarity?
94. What is used to make a non-stationary series stationary?
95. What model models a time series as a linear function of its past values?
96. What is used for model selection in time series analysis?
97. What is a simple smoothing technique?
98. What is the difference between the actual and predicted values?
99. What is another measure of forecast accuracy?
100. What test is used to test for autocorrelation in residuals?