Written/Composed by:- Adnan Maqbool , Contact # 0315-3130411 My Youtube Channel: Informationpk Website: www.informationpk.com , E-mail:
[email protected] Statistics Notes for I.com / F.A / FSc / BSc / B.com / BS / BBA / MBA / M.Com /ACCA Visit: www.informationpk.com for Notes, Past papers, Home Tuition and more. 1 MCQ No 1.1 The science of collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions is called: (a) Statistic (b) Parameter (c) Population (d) Statistics MCQ No 1.2 Methods of organizing, summarizing, and presenting data in an informative way are called: (a) Descriptive statistics (b) Inferential statistics (c) Theoretical statistics (d) Applied statistics MCQ No 1.3 The methods used to determine something about a population on the basis of a sample is called: (a) Inferential statistics (b) Descriptive statistics (c) Applied statistics (d) Theoretical statistics MCQ No 1.4 When the characteristic being studied is nonnumeric, it is called a: (a) Quantitative variable (b) Qualitative variable (c) Discrete variable (d) Continuous variable MCQ No 1.5 When the variable studied can be reported numerically, the variable is called a: (a) Quantitative variable (b) Qualitative variable (c) Independent variable (d) Dependent variable MCQ No 1.6 A specific characteristic of a population is called: (a) Statistic (b) Parameter (c) Variable (d) Sample MCQ No 1.7 A specific characteristic of a sample is called: (a) Variable (b) Constant (c) Parameter (d) Statistic MCQ No 1.8 A set of all units of interest in a study is called: (a) Sample (b) Population (c) Parameter (d) Statistic MCQ No 1.9 A part of the population selected for study is called a: (a) Variable (b) Data (c) Sample (d) Parameter MCQ No 1.10 Listing of the data in order of numerical magnitude is called: (a) Raw data (b) Arrayed data (c) Discrete data (d) Continuous data www.Informationpk.com
Written/Composed by:- Adnan Maqbool , Contact # 0315-3130411 My Youtube Channel: Informationpk Website: www.informationpk.com , E-mail:
[email protected] Statistics Notes for I.com / F.A / FSc / BSc / B.com / BS / BBA / MBA / M.Com /ACCA Visit: www.informationpk.com for Notes, Past papers, Home Tuition and more. 2 MCQ No 1.11 Listings of the data in the form in which these are collected are known as: (a) Secondary data (b) Raw data (c) Arrayed data (d) Qualitative data MCQ No 1.12 Data that are collected by any body for some specific purpose and use are called: (a) Qualitative data (b) Primary data (c) Secondary data (d) Continuous data MCQ No 1.13 The data which have under gone any treatment previously is called: (a) Primary data (b) Secondary data (c) Symmetric data (d) Skewed data MCQ No 1.14 The data obtained by conducting a survey is called: (a) Primary data (b) Secondary data (c) Continuous data (d) Qualitative data MCQ No 1.15 The data collected from published reports is known as: (a) Discrete data (b) Arrayed data (c) Secondary data (d) Primary data MCQ No 1.16 A survey in which information is collected from each and every individual of the population is known as: (a) Sample survey (b) Pilot survey (c) Biased survey (d) Census survey MCQ No 1.17 Data used by an agency which originally collected them are: (a) Primary data (b) Raw data (c) Secondary data (d) Grouped data MCQ No 1.18 Registration is the source of: (a) Primary data (b) Secondary data (c) Qualitative data (d) Continuous data MCQ No 1.19 Data in the population census reports are: (a) Ungrouped data (b) Secondary data (c) Primary data (d) Arrayed data MCQ No 1.20 Issuing a national identity card is an example of: (a) Sampling (b) Statistic (c) Census (d) Registration MCQ No 1.21 A variable that assumes only some selected values in a range is called: (a) Continuous variable (b) Quantitative variable (c) Discrete variable (d) Qualitative variable www.Informationpk.com
Written/Composed by:- Adnan Maqbool , Contact # 0315-3130411 My Youtube Channel: Informationpk Website: www.informationpk.com , E-mail:
[email protected] Statistics Notes for I.com / F.A / FSc / BSc / B.com / BS / BBA / MBA / M.Com /ACCA Visit: www.informationpk.com for Notes, Past papers, Home Tuition and more. 3 MCQ No 1.22 A variable that assumes any value within a range is called: (a) Discrete variable (b) Continuous variable (c) Independent variable (d) Dependent variable MCQ No 1.23 A variable that provides the basis for estimation is called: (a) Dependent variable (b) Independent variable (c) Continuous variable (d) Qualitative variable MCQ No 1.24 The variable that is being predicted or estimated is called: (a) Dependent variable (b) Independent variable (c) Discrete variable (d) Continuous variable MCQ No 1.25 Monthly rainfall in a city during the last ten years is an example of a: (a) Discrete variable (b) Continuous variable (c) Qualitative variable (d) Independent variable MCQ No 1.26: The proportion of females in a sample of 50 accounts officers is an example of a: (a) Parameter (b) Statistic (c) Array (d) Variable MCQ No 1.27: Number of family members in different families in a town is an example of a: (a) Discrete variable (b) Continuous variable (c) Dependent variable (d) Qualitative variable MCQ No 1.28 Colours of flowers are an example of: (a) Quantitative variable (b) Qualitative variable (c) Skewed variable (d) Symmetric variable MCQ No 1.29 If each measurement in a data set falls into one and only one of a set of categories, the data set is called: (a) Quantitative (b) Qualitative (c) Continuous (d) Constant MCQ No 1.30 Any phenomenon which is not measurable is called: (a) Variable (b) Constant (c) Parameter (d) Attribute MCQ No 1.31 A constant can assume values: (a) Zero (b) One (c) Fixed (d) Not fixed MCQ No 1.32 A value which does not change from one individual to another individual is called: (a) Variable (b) Statistic (c) Constant (d) Array www.Informationpk.com
Written/Composed by:- Adnan Maqbool , Contact # 0315-3130411 My Youtube Channel: Informationpk Website: www.informationpk.com , E-mail:
[email protected] Statistics Notes for I.com / F.A / FSc / BSc / B.com / BS / BBA / MBA / M.Com /ACCA Visit: www.informationpk.com for Notes, Past papers, Home Tuition and more. 4 MCQ No 1.33 In the plural sense, statistics means: (a) Numerical data (b) Methods (c) Population data (d) Sample data MCQ No 1.34 In the singular sense, statistics means: (a) Methods (b) Numerical data (c) Sample data (d) Population data MCQ No 1.35 Weight of earth is: (a) Discrete variable (b) Qualitative variable (c) Continuous variable (d) Difficult to tell MCQ No 1.36 Weights of students in a class marks is a: (a) Discrete data (b) Continuous data (c) Qualitative data (d) Constant data MCQ No 1.37 Life of a T.V tube is a: (a) Discrete variable (b) Continuous variable (c) Qualitative variable (d) Constant MCQ No 1.38 Questionnaire method is used in collecting: (a) Primary data (b) Secondary data (c) Published data. (d) True data MCQ No 1.39 Census returns are: (a) Primary data (b) Secondary data (c) Qualitative data (d) True data MCQ No 1.40 Students divided into different groups according to their intelligence and gender will generate: (a) Quantitative data (b) Qualitative data (c) Continuous data (d) Constant MCQ No 1.41 Statistics are: (a) Aggregate of facts and figures (b) Always true (c) Always continuous (d) Always qualitative MCQ No 1.42 Statistics results are: (a) Randomly true (b) Always true (c) Not true (d) True on average MCQ No 1.43 Statistics does not study: (a) Constant (b) Statistic (c) Parameter (d) Individual www.Informationpk.com