Statistics MCQs

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Non-sample errors are reduced by:________________?
A. Increasing the sample size
B. Reduced the amount of data
C. Decreasing the sample standard deviation
D. None of these
Sampling error can reduced by __________________?
A. Non-random sampling
B. Increasing the population
C. Decreasing the sample size
D. Increasing the sample size
Which of the following is impossible in sampling ?
A. Destructive tests
B. Heterogeneous data
C. To make voters lists
D. None of these
For making voters lists in Pakistan we need _______________?
A. Simple random sampling
B. Systematic sampling
C. Quota sampling
D. Census
If in a sampling distribution of X the sample size is 25, what assumption must hold for the sampling distribution of X to be normal ?
A. Population distribution is normal
B. Μ1 = μx
C. Population distribution is uniform
D. Σx = σx /√n
A sample of 24 observations is taken from a population that has 150 elements. The sampling distribution of is___________?
A. Approximately normal because is always approximately normally distributed
B. Approximately normal because the sample size is large in comparsion to the population size
C. Approximately normal because of the central limit theorem
D. Normal if the population is normally distributed
The sampling error is the_____________?
A. Same as the standard error of the mean
B. Difference between the value of the sample mean and the value of the population mean
C. Error caused by selecting a bad sample
D. Standard deviation multiplied by the sample size
In w.o.r 2σx=_____________________?
A. 26/√n√n – n/n – 1
B. Σ/√n√n – n/n – 1
C. 26/√n n – n/n – 1
D. 26/√n