Who is regarded as the founder of mathematical statistics?
Correct answer B. Karl Pearson
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Statistics MCQs
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If a data set contains a zero, which average cannot be calculated?
Correct answer D. Both A and B
What is the middle value of a set of numbers arranged in order?
Correct answer C. Median
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What is a collection of numerical facts called?
Correct answer B. Data
Which measures split a set of data into four equal parts?
Correct answer B. Quartiles
What is a single numerical fact called?
Correct answer B. Datum
What kind of variable is the weight of students in a school or college?
Correct answer C. Continuous Variable
Once a statistical tool has been applied to primary data, what do the data become?
Correct answer A. Secondary data
What kind of variable is the number of accidents in a city during 2012?
Correct answer C. Discrete variable
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What are data obtained for the very first time called?
Correct answer A. Primary data
What are data that have already been collected by someone else called?
Correct answer A. Secondary data
Which hypothesis tells us whether a test is one-tailed or two-tailed?
Correct answer D. None of these
Which number, discovered in December 2018, was at that time the largest known prime?
Correct answer B. 2^82,589,933 − 1
Primary data are the same as which kind of data?
Correct answer C. Ungrouped
From what kind of data is a parameter calculated?
Correct answer B. Population data
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What type of data is collected through a questionnaire survey?
Correct answer A. Primary data
For the values 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50, whose mean is 30, what is the sum of the deviations from the mean?
Correct answer D. Zero
Which of these measures uses every observation in the series?
Correct answer B. Standard Deviation
What name is given to the value that occurs most often in a data set?
Correct answer B. Mode
Which average cannot be computed if any value in the data set is negative?
Correct answer D. Geometric Mean