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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

MA8391 – PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

UNIT – III

TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS
1. Stand error of the sample mean is
(a) σ 2
σ
(b)
n
σ
(c)
√n
n
(d) √
σ

2. When n is large and σ 2 is unknown, σ 2 is replaced in the test statistic by

(a) Sample Mean


(b) Sample Variance
(c) Sample S.D

(d) Sample proportion

3. Critical region of a test is

(a) Rejection region

(b) Acceptance region

(c) Sample space

(d) Subet of the Sample space


4. In general, large sample theory is applicable when
(a) n ≥ 100

(b) n ≥ 50

(c) n ≥ 40

(d) n ≥ 30
5. When H 1 is a one-sided (right) alternative hypothesis, the critical region is determined
by
(a) Both right tail and left tail
(b) Nither right tail nor left tail
(c) Left tail
(d) Right tail

6. Critical value at 5% level of significance for two-tailed large sample test is


(a) 1.645

(b) 2.33
(c) 2.58
(d) 1.96

7. For testing H 0: μ = μ0 against H 1: μ < μ0, what is the critical value at α = 0.01?

(a) 2.33

(b) 1.645

(c) -2.33
(d)-1.645

8. Rejecting H 0 , when it is true is called

(a) Type I error

(b) Type II error

(c) Sampling error

(d) Standard error

9. When the alternative hypothesis is H 1 : μ ≠μ, the critical region will be determined
by
(a) Both right and left tails

(b) neither right nor left

(c) right tail


(d) left tail

10. What is the standard error of the sample proportion under H o?


P
(a)
√ Q

p
(b)
√ q

p
(c)
q
P
(d)
Q

11. What is level of significance?

(a) P(Type I Error)


(b) P(Type II Error)
(c) Upper limit of P(Type I Error)
(d) Upper limit of P(Type II Error)

12. Which of the following distributions is Continuous?

a) Binomial Distribution

b) Hyper-geometric Distribution

c) F-Distribution

d) Poisson Distribution

13. Which of the following distributions is used to compare two variances?

a) T – Distribution

b) F – Distribution

c) Normal Distribution

d) Poisson Distribution
14. Large sample test can be applied for two-sample problems, for testing the equality of two

Population means, when

(a) m + n ≥ 30

(b) m ≥ 30, n ≥ 30

(c) m ≥ 30, m + n ≥ 30

(d) mn ≥ 30

15. The Mean Student’s‘t’ distribution was found by

(a) Karl Pearson

(b) Laplac

(c) R.A. Fisher

(d) William S.Gosset

16. In n Support of student’s t random variable is

(a) –∞ < t ≤ 0 b) 0 ≤ t < ∞

(b) 0 ≤ t < ∞

(c) –∞ < t < ∞

(d) 0 ≤ t ≤ 1

17. Paired t-test is applicable when the observations in both the samples are

(a) Paired

(b) Correlated

(c) Equal in number

(d) all the above

18. If the size of sample is larger than 30, the t-distribution tends to

(a) normal distribution

(b) F-distribution

(c) ) chi-square distribution

(d) Poisson distribution


( x́−μ)
t=
19. The number of degrees of freedom for the test statistic s
√n
(a) n + 2

(b) n - 1

(c) n

(d) n-2

20. The mean of the f – distribution is equal to ___________


a) v 2 /(v 2−2)for v 2> 2
b) v 2 /(v 2−2)2 for v 2>2
c) v 2 /(v 2−2)3 for v 2> 2
d) v 2 /(v 2−2)−1 for v 2> 2

21. If the order of the contigency table is (5 × 4). Then the degree of freedom of the
Corresponding chi-square test statistic is
(a) 18

(b) 17

(c) 12

(d) 25

22. For testing the hypothesis concerning variance of a normal population _______ is used.

(a) t-test

(b) F-test

(c)Z-test

(d)) χ2-test

23. If n is the degree of freedom of chi-square distribution then its variance is

(a) n
(b) n-1
(c) 2n
(d) n+1
24. If chi-square is performed for testing goodness of fit to a data with k classes on estimating
‘s’ parameters then degrees of fredom of test statistic is.
(a) K−s

(b)( k−1)(s−1)

(c) K−1−s

(d) K +2

25. If σ 2 is the variance of normal population, then the degrees of freedom of the sampling
distribution of the test statistic for testing H o : σ 2 = σ 02 is:
(a) n−1

( b ) n+1

(c)n

(d) n−2

26. The statistic χ2, with usual notations, in case of contingency table of order (m × n) is given
by

m n
(O ¿ ¿ IJ −E IJ )2
(a) Ψ 02=∑ ∑ ¿
i=1 j =1 E IJ

n
(O ¿ ¿ IJ−E IJ )2
( b ) Ψ 02 = ∑ ¿
j=1 E IJ

2
n
(O ¿ ¿ IJ−E IJ )2
(c)Ψ 0 =∑ ¿
j=1 2

(O ¿ ¿ IJ−E IJ )5
n
(d) Ψ 02 = ∑ ¿
j=1 2

27. Random sample taken from a population then the function of sample values is known as:

(a) Parameter

( b ) Statistic

(c) population

(d) Nome of these.


28. Which of the following is a sampling distribution?
(a) Binomial

(b) Poisson

(c) Chi-square

(d) None of these

29. The hypothesis which is under test for possible rejection is


(a) Null hypothesis
(b) Alternate hypothesis
(c) Simple hypothesis
(d) None of these

30. A hypothesis contrary to null hypothesis is,


(a) Null hypothesis
(b) Alternate hypothesis
(c) Simple hypothesis
(d) None of these

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ANSWER KEY UNIT – III TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS

1c 2b 3a 4d 5d
6d 7c 8a 9a 10a
11c 12c 13b 14b 15c
16c 17d 18a 19b 20a
21c 22d 23c 24c 25c
26a 27b 28c 29a 30b

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