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NTS GAT 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 does descriptive statistics do?
2. What is the middle value of a sorted dataset?
3. What is the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles?
4. What plot shows the median, quartiles, and outliers?
5. What measures the asymmetry of a distribution?
6. What divide a dataset into four equal parts?
7. What measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship?
8. What plot displays data while preserving individual values?
9. Which measure of central tendency is sensitive to outliers?
10. Which measure of central tendency is robust to outliers?
11. Which mean is used for data with multiplicative relationships?
12. How is the sample variance calculated?
13. What design assigns subjects to treatments randomly?
14. What design controls for two blocking factors?
15. What design is used when some factors are hard to change?
16. What design has all combinations of factor levels?
17. What is the grouping of experimental units to control variability?
18. What is used to analyze experimental data?
19. What partitions the total variance into components?
20. What compares the between-group variance to the within-group variance?
21. What are the assumptions of ANOVA?
22. What test checks the homogeneity of variances assumption?
23. What are comparisons specified before the experiment?
24. What design assigns each subject to only one treatment?
25. What is hypothesis testing?
26. What is a statement of no effect or no difference?
27. What does a small p-value indicate?
28. What is a Type I error?
29. What is a Type II error?
30. What is the range of values for which H0 is rejected?
31. What is another method for hypothesis testing?
32. What is a measure of effect size for the difference between two means?
33. What is multivariate statistics?
34. What contains the variances and covariances of variables?
35. What contains the correlations between variables?
36. What is a multivariate extension of ANOVA?
37. What represent the correlation between variables and factors?
38. What builds a hierarchy of clusters?
39. What is used to evaluate clustering quality?
40. What is another method for determining the number of clusters?
41. What is a statistic used in MANOVA?
42. What do probability distributions describe?
43. What is the parameter of the Poisson distribution?
44. What distribution models the time between events?
45. Which distribution is used for small samples when the variance is unknown?
46. Which distribution is used for variance tests?
47. Which distribution is used in reliability and survival analysis?
48. Which distribution is used in logistic regression?
49. What distribution models the number of failures before a specified number of successes?
50. What distribution models the number of trials until the first success?
51. What uniquely determines a distribution?
52. What does probability theory deal with?
53. What is the range of probability?
54. What law states P(A) = ∑P(A|Bi)P(Bi)?
55. What is the addition rule for mutually exclusive events?
56. What type of random variable takes countable values?
57. What does variance measure?
58. What is a normalized measure of linear dependence?
59. What inequality relates convex functions to expectations?
60. What is an ordered arrangement of objects called?
61. What does the slope measure in simple linear regression?
62. What method is used to estimate regression coefficients?
63. What penalizes the addition of unnecessary predictors?
64. What occurs when the variance of residuals is not constant?
65. What detects multicollinearity?
66. What does a high VIF indicate?
67. What test detects heteroskedasticity?
68. What test checks for normality of residuals?
69. Which regularization method performs variable selection?
70. What is another model selection criterion?
71. What sampling method divides the population into clusters and selects some?
72. What sampling method selects every kth element?
73. What includes errors due to data collection, processing, and non-response?
74. What occurs when the sampling frame does not cover the entire population?
75. What affects the precision of estimates?
76. What is the sample size formula for a proportion?
77. What allocation minimizes the variance for a fixed sample size?
78. What means that each individual can be selected multiple times?
79. What is statistical inference?
80. What is a numerical characteristic of a population?
81. What is a numerical characteristic of a sample?
82. What is a single value used to estimate a population parameter?
83. What is the probability that the confidence interval contains the true parameter?
84. What is the half-width of a confidence interval?
85. What estimator has an expected value equal to the true parameter?
86. What estimator converges to the true parameter as sample size increases?
87. What theorem provides a way to improve an estimator using a sufficient statistic?
88. What theorem states that the MVUE is a function of a complete sufficient statistic?
89. What method finds the parameter value that maximizes the likelihood function?
90. What method estimates parameters by equating sample moments to population moments?
91. What uses prior and likelihood to obtain a posterior distribution?
92. What is a sequence of observations ordered by time?
93. What are fluctuations that occur over longer periods without fixed frequency?
94. What are random or unpredictable fluctuations?
95. What measures autocorrelation at different lags?
96. What is used to make a non-stationary series stationary?
97. What model models a time series as a linear function of its past values?
98. What is a measure of forecast accuracy?
99. What test is used to test for autocorrelation in residuals?
100. What test is used to test whether one time series predicts another?