1. Which of the following statement is true?
(a) Statistics is derived from the French word
statistic”
(b) Statistics is derived from the Latin word
“status”
(c) Statistics is derived from the Italian word
“statita”
(d) None of these

2. Class interval is measured as:
(a) The sum of the upper and lower limit
(b) Half of the sum of lower and upper limit
(c) Half of the difference between upper and
lower limit
(d) The difference between upper and lower
limit

3. Frequency distribution
(a) Arranges observation in an increasing order
(b) Arranges observations in terms of a number
of groups.
(c) Relates to a measurable characteristic
(d) All of these

4. Which of the following measures of central
tendency tends to be most influenced by an
extreme score?
(a) Median                       (b) Mode
(c) Mean                          (d) All of these

5. Measures used to study the shape of the curve of a
given distribution are marked as
(a) Raw moments
(b) measures of skewness
(c) central moments
(d) mean

6. The value of coefficient of Kurtosis ?2 can be
—————————
(a) Less than 3
(b) Greater than 3
(c) Equal to 3
(d) All the above

7. The normal probability curve is ————————
(a) Bell shaped
(b) J shaped
(c) S shaped
(d) Cone shaped

8. Scatter diagram of the variate values (X, Y) given
the idea about —————————
(a) Functional relationship
(b) Regression model
(c) Distribution of errors
(d) None of the above

9. Regression coefficient is independent of
—————————
(a) Origin
(b) Scale
(c) Both origin and scale
(d) Neither origin nor scale

10. Regression equation is also named as
—————————
(a) predication equation
(b) estimating equation
(c) line of average relationship
(d) all the above