Unit -1

1. Describe the different types of Research Design.(Dec 06, 07) ( 6 marks)

2. What are the different types of Research Report? (Jun 06, 07)

3. Write a short note on Null Hypothesis. (Jun 06)

4. What are the steps involved in Research Process? (Dec 06) (Jun 06)

5. Discuss the various steps involved in the preparation of a Research design. (Jun 06) (Jun

07)

6. What is a research problem? Explain its steps. Identifying the Research topic. (Dec 07)

7. What is a Social Research? Explain its objectives. (Dec 07)

8. How do you set a Research problem? Explain. (Dec 07)

9. Explain the significance of Research Design. (Dec 07)

10. Describe the significance of sampling (Dec 07)

11. How does analysis of data helpful for research work? ( Dec 07)

12. Describe the components of a research problem?

13. What are the various steps involved in conducting the scientific research?

14. Write a short note on experience survey. Explain fully its utility in exploratory research

studies.

15. Describe briefly commonly used sampling distributions. (Dec 07) (10 marks)

16. Discuss various types of Research work. Explain the significance of research process.

(Dec 07)

17. Discuss the significance of survey research as a method of conducting social research.

18. What is the role and feature of research hypothesis? How is research hypothesis

formulated?
 19. Write a detailed note on ethics in research. Give example wherever necessary.

20. How would you evaluate hypothesis.

21. Explain different types of research and differentiate case study from survey research.

22. How does the case study method differ from the survey method? Analyze the merits and

limitations of case study method.

Unit-2

1. Enumerate the different methods of collecting data. (Dec 06) (6 marks)

2. Explain the different sources of collecting data. (Dec 07)

3. How does a questionnaire differ from a schedule? (Dec 06)

4. What do you mean by pretesting of questionnaire?

5. What is stratified sampling?

6. Examine the merits and limitations of the observation method in collecting materials.

(Jun 07) (10 marks)

7. Describe the guidelines to be followed in constructing a questionnaire. (Jun 06) (Dec 06)

8. Clearly explain about the collection of data through interview and schedules. (Dec 06)

9. Write short notes on the following:

a. Questionnaire

b. Interview Schedule

c. Liker type scale

d. Scalogram Analysis

10. Discuss the techniques to be followed for increasing the response to a mailed

questionnaire.

11. In determining the sample size what factors must an analyst consider?
12. What is type 2 error? Give example.

13. What is the non parameter expression? Explain them.

14.

Unit -3 (6 marks)

1. Explain Chi Square test. ( Jun 09)

2. What is hypothesis? Explain its characteristics. (Jun 08)

3. Write a short note on index number?

4. What is a decision tree?

5. The mean life of a electric tubes is known to be 10000 hrs and the standard deviation of

800 hrs. The engineers develop a new design of tubes a sample of 64 of these new tubes

gives 10200 hrs as the mean life. Is this improvement real or due to chance. Give your

answer at 5% level of significance.

6. 500 articles were selected at random out of a batch containing 10000 articles and 30 were

found to be defective. How many defective articles would you reasonably expect to find

in the whole batch?

7. A manufacturer of readymade garments conducts a market survey to known the choice of

brands. A, B, C, and D of 100 prospective customers. The results show A=20, B=30,

C=18 and D=32. Use chi- square test to know if customers have any distinct brand

preference.

8. What should be the size of the sample if a simple random sample from a population of

4000 items is to be drawn to estimate the percent defective within the percent of the true

value with 95.5 percent probability? What would be the size of the sample if the

population is assumed to be infinite in the given case?

10. How does the variance differ from mean absolute deviation?

11. What is chi-square test? When and why it is used.

12. Describe the important methods of measuring the trend in a time series.

13. Fit a straight line trend equation by the method of least squares and estimate the trend

values.

Year 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Values 80 90 92 83 94 99 92 104

14. A man buys 200 electric bulbs of two well known makes taken at random from stocks for

testing purposes. He finds that make A has a mean life of 2,560 hrs with a standard

deviation of 90 hrs and make B has a mean life of 2,650 hrs with a standard deviation of

75 hrs. Is there a significant difference in the mean life of these two makes at 5% level of

significance?

15. Explain the procedure for hypothesis testing through a flow diagram. How do you

measure the power of a hypothesis test?

Unit-4

1. What do you understand by discriminate analysis? (Jun 06,07) (6 marks)

2. What do you understand by cluster analysis?

3. Explain the statistical techniques used in the Research Analysis. (Dec 07) (10 marks)

4. From the data given below calculate rank correlation. (Dec 07)
 A: 40 55 34 50 42 60

B: 37 43 39 45 50 55

5. From the data given below calculate multiple regression plane:

X1: 8 21 14 17 36 9

X2: 4 9 11 20 13 28

Y: 10 17 18 26 35 8

Predict Y for X1 = 28 and X2 = 10

How do you understand the multi dimensional scaling (MDS)? Explain with example.

6. “Research is much concerned with proper fact finding, analysis and evaluation”. Do you

agree? Explain.

7. “Processing of data implies editing, coding, classification and tabulation”. Elucidate.

8. Explain the significance of multi variant techniques in research.

9. Distinguish between ANOVA and ANOCOVA.

10. Equations of the two lines of regression are 2x+3y = 5 and 5x + 4y = 9. Find

a. Mean of x and y

b. Regression coefficients byx and bxy.

c. Correlation coefficient between x and y.

11. Explain simple and multiple regression and their applications in research.

12. Distinguish clearly between correlation and regression. Why should there be two lines of

regression in a bi variant distribution.

Unit-5

1. Describe the objectives of writing a report. (Dec 07) (6 marks)

2. Describe the essential features of a research report?

09) (10 marks)

4. Describe different forms in which research work may be reported? (Dec 07) (10 marks)

5. Explain the different stages involved in the presentation of research report.

6. Describe in brief, the layout of a research report.

7. Why quotation is used in a research report?

8. Narrate the precautions that a researcher should take while interpreting his findings

Others

1. Evaluate each of the various methods of estimating reliability. How reliability of an

instrument can be impaired?

2. Explain the importance of measurement scales in social science research and how will

you construct and apply linker’s five point scale or the research project relating to

consumer behavior.

3. Explain central limit theorem.

4. Distinguish between field editing and central editing.

5. Differentiate between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

6. Explain the methods of citation styles and foot notes in a research report. Also explain

boss reference.

7. The values of spearman’s ’r’ are rab=0.607, rac=0.429 and rbc=0.393, calculate Kendall’s

coefficient of concordance ‘w’ from this and test it’s significant at 5% level.