Pioneers’

STATISTICS
SAMPLE PAPERS
Volume I

Including
Lecturer Statistics Written Test Sample Paper
Subject Specialist (Statistics) Written Test Sample
Statistical Officer Written Test Sample Paper
M.Phil Entry Test Sample Paper (PU, GCU, QAU, & BZU)
Solved Lecturer Statistics Written Test Paper 2021

Compiled by

Asad Ahamd Awais Khurshid Ans Nazeer

Pioneers’

STATISTICS
SAMPLE PAPERS
Volume I

Including
Lecturer Statistics Written Test Sample Paper
Subject Specialist (Statistics) Written Test Sample
Statistical Officer Written Test Sample Paper
M.Phil Entry Test Sample Paper (PU, GCU, QAU, & BZU)
Solved Lecturer Statistics Written Test Paper 2021

Compiled by

Asad Ahamd Awais Khurshid Ans Nazeer

 Preface
By the grace of ALLAH, the Most Beneficent and Merciful and with the prayers of parents, teachers
and all the fellowship, we have completed this task which is the need of time.

This Statistical Sample Papers (Volume-1) is written for the practice of various posts such as:
Lecturer Statistics, Subject Specialist, Statistical Officer and M.Phil admission test for different universities
(PU, GCU, QAU, and BZU), GAT subject, and solved Lecturer Statistics (BPS-17) paper 2021. This book
consists of all compulsory materials related to above mentioned posts. This booklet will prove an asset and
source of rich knowledge not only for such exams but also for some other relevant competitive exams.

The test pattern (marks division) given in this book is not affirmative for respective posts. Marks division
with respect to different seats may vary either by advertisement or from department to department by their
policies. Most probably 50% to 80% material will relevant to Statistics. MCQs may also be relevant to
concerned department like Statistical officer in fisheries, Crop reporting department, Planning and
Development department and Industries, Commerce, Investment and Skills development Department etc.

We are thankful to all our teachers at University of the Punjab, Government College University
Lahore, COMSATS University Lahore, colleagues at Bureau of Statistics, Crop Reporting Services
(Agricultural Statistics), Punjab, research fellows and Mr. Umar Farooq (Commerce, Investment and Skills
development Department, Punjab) whose moral contributions were helpful.

Although the hectic efforts we have made to make this booklet a picture prefect repository of
Statistics, we welcome the positive recommendations and constructive criticism from the academia and the
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(It is hard to fail but, it is worse never tried to succeed)

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 CONTENTS
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.01 PPSC Lecturer Statistics/Subject Specialist (Statistics)/Statistical Officer 1-6
Sample Paper 01
.02 PPSC Lecturer Statistics/Subject Specialist (Statistics)/Statistical Officer 7-13
Sample Paper 02
.03 PPSC Lecturer Statistics/Subject Specialist (Statistics)/Statistical Officer 14-20
Sample Paper 03
.04 M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper 21-27
(CSAS, University of the Punjab)
.05 M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper 28-34
(Government College University, Lahore)
.06 M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper 35-38
(Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad)
.07 M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper 39-44
(Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan)
.08 Solved Lecturer Statistics Lecturer Written Test 2021 45-50
.09 Solution 51-57
Pioneers’ Statistics Sample paper 1

PPSC Lecturer Statistics/Subject Specialist (Statistics)/Statistical Officer Sample Paper 01

.01 Stem and leaf graph rotate __________?
(A) 900 clock wise (B) 1800 clock wise (C) 900 anti-clock wise (D) 1800 clock wise
.02 Box-plot is displayed __________?
(A)Vertically (B) Horizontally (C) Diagonally (D) Vertically or Horizontally
.03 Ogive can be used for the calculation of __________?
(A) Geometric mean (B) Median (C) Trimmed mean (D) Standard deviation
.04 Component Bar Chart is another name of __________?
(A) Multiple Bar Chart (B) Component Bar Chart (C) Scatter Diagram (D) Venn Diagram
.05 Residual method is used for analyzing __________?
(A) Secular trend (B) Seasonal variation (C) Cyclical variation (D) Irregular variation
.06 If skewness < -1 or > +1, then the distribution __________?
(A) highly skewed (B) moderately skewed (C) approximately symmetric (D) skewed and leptokurtic
.07 Positively skewed means __________?
(A) Bulk of the data at the right & right tail is longer
(B) Bulk of the data at the left & left tail is longer
(C) Bulk of the data at the left & right tail is longer
(D) Bulk of the data at the right & left tail is longer
.08 The distribution will be symmetrical if __________?
(A) Q3+Q1 = Median*Q2 (B) Q3*Q1 = Mediam+Q2
(C) Q3*Q1 = Median*Q2 (D) Q3-Q1 = 2*Median
.09 Which of the following is affected by change of scale?
(A) All absolute measures of dispersion (B) All relative measures of dispersion
(C) All mathematical averages (D) All positioning averages
.10 Which of the following is affected by change of scale?
(A) All measures of dispersion (B) All mathematical averages
(C) All mathematical averages (D) All of these
.11 Consider a data set: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35.If we add 5 to each observation then __________?
(A) the variance will be the same to the variance of original data
(B) the variance will be increased by 25 to the variance of original data
(C) the variance will be decreased by 5 to the variance of original data
(D) the variance will be increased by 5 to the variance of original data
.12 For a data set: 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99. Mode = __________?
(A) same as Median (B) Zero (C) does not exist (D) 9
.13 Second Quartile (Q2) can be obtained __________?
(A) by finding A.M of Q3 and Q1 (B) by finding the Median
(C) A & B (D) by finding G.M of Q3 and Q1
.14 For a data set: -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4 , which of the following inequality/equality holds ?
(A) Range > SD = Variance (B) Median = Co-efficient of Variance
(C) Range = SD = Quartile deviation (D) None of these
.15 The Variance will be zero __________?
(A) if the observations are identical
(B) if the there is a same distance among all the observations
(C) for both above mentioned types of data
(D) if there is no random pattern in the data set
.16 Which index lies between Laspeyre’s index and Paasche’s index?
(A) Marshal Edgeworth’s index (B) Fisher’s Ideal index (C) Chain base index (D) All of these
.17 Which of the following statement is not true?
(A) Fisher’s Ideal index is only satisfied Factor reversal test

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(B) Aggregative expenditure method and family budge method always give different result
(C) Index number only used to measure seasonal variability in time series
(D) All of these statements are not true
.18 Which test stated that (Price Index * Volume Index) = Value Index?
(A) Factor reversal test (B) Time reversal test (C) Circular test (D) none of these
.19 Which Index number is computed from a combination of several commodities?
(A) Fisher’s index (B) Marshal Edgeworth’s index (C) Composite index number (D) all of these
.20 Which test require the assumption of “constant weights” of weighted index numbers?
(A) Factor reversal test (B) Time reversal test (C) both A and B (D) none of these
.21 Consider a p.m.f f(x) = 1, x = 6. Then the mean and S.D of the distribution will be__________?
(A) 1, 0 respectively (B) 3, 1 respectively (C) 6, 0 respectively (D) 5, 0 respectively
.22 Letting W denotes a random variable that is defined as the sum of two dice then graphical behave
of the distribution of obtaining probabilities will be?
(A) Positively skewed (B) Negatively skewed (C) Symmetric (D) Uniform
.23 The probability that a continuous random variable will assume any particular value is zero due to
the reason that __________?
(A) lack of symmetry (B) maximum value of Variance
(C) lower limit = upper limit of definite integral (D) outlier in the data
.24 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) The density function is the derivative of the cumulative distribution function
(B) A random experiment is predictable
(C) All of these are true statements
(D) None of these is a true statement
.25 If X follows Binomial Distribution then its variance will be maximum if __________?
(A) Var(X) = infinity (B) Var(X) = 1 (C) Var(X) = p/4 (D) Var(X) = n/4
.26 All odd order moments are zero for __________?
(A) Normal distribution (B) Continuous Uniform distribution (C) Both A & B (D) none of these
.27 When two dice are rolled simultaneously then probability of getting even number as a product
will be
(A) 1/2 (B) 2/3 (C) 3/4 (D) 1/4
.28 Consider U and V are two discrete random variables with their joint probabilities:
f(1,1) = 0.01, f(1,2) = 0.20
f(1,3) = 0.09, f(2,1) = 0.07
f(2,2) = 0.00, f(2,3) = 0.03
f(3,1) = 0.09, f(3,2) = 0.05
f(3,3) = 0.06, f(4,1) = 0.03
f(4,2) = 0.25, f(4,3) = 0.12
Then Pr( V = 2) = __________?
(A) 0.10 (B) 0.30 (C) 0.50 (D) 0.70
.29 If W follows a Chi_square distribution having d.f = 4 then its third moment =?
(A) 0 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 32
.30 Consider U, V, W & X are random variables then COV(2U+ 3V, 4W+5X) = __________?
(A) 4Var(U)+9Var(V)+16Var(W)+25Var(X)
(B) 36COV(U,V)+400COV(W,X)
(C) 8COV(U,W)+10COV(U,X)+12COV(V,W)+15COV(V,X)
(D) 6COV(U,V)+20COV(W,X)
.31 In Scree plot __________ are plotted vertically?
(A) eigen values (B) number of factors (C) Covariance matrices (D) variances of common factor
.32 If the Correlation Matrix has very small off diagonal coefficient then it indicates __________?

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(A) variables are independent (B) variables are not independent (C)under fitting (D) Over fitting
.33 Which of the following statement is true about Correlation matrix?
(A) limit of each principal diagonal: -1 to +1 (B) limit of off-diagonal elements: -1 to +1
(C) both A and B (D) none of these is a true statement
.34 Count data is an example of
(A) discrete data (B) continuous data (C) A or B (D) non-numeric data
.35 Multivariate statistical methods allow simultaneous investigation of __________ variables?
(A) at least two (B) only two (C) more than two (D) five
.36 If two Normally distributed random variables have same co-efficient of skewness then their co-
efficient of determination will be?
(A) An indeterminate form (B) 100% (C) 0% (D) half of the common co-efficient of skewness
.37 Which of the following formula is true for adjusted R2

(A) 1  VIF
  nk
n  k 1
 


(B) 1  VIF
  n 1 

n  k  1 

(C) 1 
 1
 n 1

 VIF n  k  1

 (D) 1  
 1 n  k 1 

 VIF n  1 
.38 X 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Y 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
Then Pearson’s correlation co-efficient will be __________?
(A) Zero (B) One (C) an indeterminate form (D) 0.5
.39 Which assumption violates when residuals tend to increase/decrease with of predictors?
(A) Linearity (B) Heteroscedasticity (C) Independence of residuals (D) none of these
.40 A regression model is linear when __________?
(A) Its parameters occur linearly
(B) Its predictor(s) occur linearly
(C) both parameters and predictor(s) occur linearly
(D) Its predictor(s) and error term occur linearly
.41 Co-efficient of determination is a __________?
(A) relative goodness of fit (B) goodness of fit statistic (C) goodness of fit index (D) all of these
.42 Correlation between X: +10, -1 & Y: -10, 1 will be __________?
(A) +1.00 (B) -1.00 (C) +0.01 (D) -0.01
.43 Which of the following is ranging from 0 to 1?
(A) Contingency coefficient C(B) Bowley’s SK (C) Beta_II distribution (D) all of these
.44 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Adjusted R 2 always less than or equal to R2
(B) Adjusted R2 is used to penalized additional covariates in the model
(C) Both A & B are true statement
(D) none of these is a true statement
.45 Consider Yi     X   If Co-efficient of determination between y and x is 100% then which
of the following statement will be true?
(A)   0 (B)   0
(C) Reject H o :   0 & p-value = 0.000 (D) All of these are true statements
.46 A census contains :
(A) Demographic data (B) Economic data (C) Socialize data (D) All of these
.47 The study of the relationship between demographic variables and other variables?
(A) Canonical Correlation (B) Population studies (C) Gender studies (D) Demography
.48 Which of the following is not a dynamic aspect of Population?

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(A) Mobility (B) Growth (C) Fertility (D) Age

.49 Test statistic ‘Z’ for Mann-Whitney U test will follow Standard Normal distribution if__________?
(A) both n1 and n2 greater than 8 (B) U lies between zero and one (C) n1 = n2 (D) (n1)(n2) = U
.50 Which Post Hoc test is not require the assumption of “equal variance”?
(A) Waller_Duncan test (B) LSD test (C) Scheffe’s test (D) Games_Howell test
.51 For large sample sizes, variances of Wilcoxon Rank Sum test Statistic & __________ will be
equivalent?
(A) Wilcoxon Sign Rank test Statistic (B) Mann-Whitney Statistic U
(C) Kruskal-Wallis Statistic H (D) Run test Statistic
.52 If n1 = 12, n2 = 11. Then which relationship will exist between the mean & variance of Wilcoxon
Rank Sum test?
(A) Var(R) = (11/6)Mean(R) (B) Var(R) = (6/11)Mean(R)
(C) Var(R) = 11Mean(R) (D) Var(R) = 6Mean(R)
.53 Run test detects which econometric error?
(A) Multicollinearity (B) Heteroscedasticity (C) Autocorrelation (D) All of these
.54 Consider a sample data: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 with a hypothized average value 5. Then Wilcoxon
Sign Rank test Statistic T will be __________?
(A) -5 (B) -16 (C) -18 (D) zero
.55 The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis for each value for which the null hypothesis is
false is called __________?
(A) Level of the significance (B) Type_I error (C) Confidence interval (D) Power of the test
.56 For a fixed sample size if level of significance (  ) = 0 then power of the test will be__________?
(A) 0 (B) +1 (C) -1 (D) 0.5(Level of significance)
.57 If an estimator is consistent. Then it is not essential that it will be __________?
(A) Unbiased (B) Efficient (C) Sufficient (D) A, B, & C
.58 Degree of freedom may be defined as number of independent observations in a sample minus
__________?
(A) 1(B) Number of estimated parameters (C) Number of estimated parameters -1 (D) 2
.59 A graph between probability of type_II error and different of alternative hypothesis is called
__________?
(A) Lorenz curve (B) Power curve (C) Operative characteristic curve (D) Ogive
.60 Which of the following measure is an evidence against the null hypothesis given by sample?
(A) Critical Value (B) Test Statistic (C) p-Value (D) Level of Significance
.61 Which of the following is a one-restrictional design?
(A) CR Design (B) RCB Design (C) Latin Square Design (D) All of these
.62 To check the impact of two categorical variables on a single Normally distributed Study
variable, which of the following Statistical method will be use?
(A) One way ANOVA (B) Multi way ANOVA (C) ANCOVA (D) MANOVA
.63 Which of the following statistical function returns the standard error of the response variable for
each value of predictor in a regression in MS EXCLE?
(A) STDEVA (B) STDEV.S (C) STEYX (D) STDEYX
.64 Which of the following statistical function returns the value of the density function of a Standard
Normal distribution in MS EXCEL?
(A) STANDARDIZE (B) STNORM (C) STN.DIST (D) PHI
.65 Which of the following statistical function returns the value of Co-efficient of Determination for a
simple linear regression in MS EXCEL?
(A) CORREL (B) PEARSON (C) MODELFIT (D) RSQ
.66 If there are 3 blocks and 5 treatments in an RCB Design then d.f for error = __________?
(A) 4 (B) 2 (C) 8 (D) 14

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.67 Which of the following experimental design possess one way classification?
(A) CR Design (B) RCB Design (C) Latin square Design (D) none of these
.68 If there are 4 treatments in a Latin square design then degree of freedom for error will be
__________?
(A) 24 (B) 9 (C) 15 (D) 6
.69 If Grand Total of a table having 4 columns & 3 rows is 6 then the Correction Factor will
be __________?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 18
.70 Sampling is essential for __________?
(A) blood test (B) Polio survey (C) Both A & B (D) Collecting tax
.71 Which of the following sampling technique has minimum standard Error?
(A) SR sampling (B) Proportional stratified sampling(C) Cluster sampling(D) Systematic sampling
.72 Which of the following sampling technique has minimum standard Error?
(A) Convenient sampling (B) Quota sampling (C) Snowball sampling (D) Cluster sampling
.73 In which of the following sampling technique, researcher starts by recognizing a few respondents
that satisfy the criteria of his/her study?
(A) Stratified random sampling (B) Cluster sampling (C) both A & B (D) Snowball sampling
.74 Yamane's sample size determination formula requires?
(A) size of population (B) level of precision (C) both A & B (D) Z-score
.75 Loss function essentially required to be __________?
(A) minimized (B) maximized (C) minimized or maximized (D) represented by box plot
.76 Seasonal index is the __________ of Seasonal average and General average?
(A) Arithmatic mean (B) Geometric mean (C) Ratio (D) Product
.77 The Hazard rate __________?
(A) lies between -1 to +1 (B) lies between -  to  (C)  0 (D)  0
.78 Distance meaningful in __________?
(i) Nominal scale
(ii) Ordinal scale
(iii) Interval scale
(iv) Ratio scale
(A) (i), (ii), (iii), & (iv) (B) (i), (ii), & (iii) (C) (iii) & (iv) (D) (iv)
.79 If Hazard function of Exponential distribution is equal to 2 then its scale parameter will be
__________?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 0.5 (D) 1.5
.80 Which of the following is used for comparing the Survival Distributions?
(A) Likelihood ratio test (B) Log-rank test (C) Run test (D) All of these
.81 Which of the following sentence is correct?
(A) The map was hanged on the wall (B) The map was hanged upon the wall
(C) The map was hung on the wall (D) The map was hung upon the wall
.82 Which of the following sentence is correct?
(A) Shahdra metro station was teemed with people
(B) Shahdra metro station was teem with people
(C) Shahdra metro station was teemed by people
(D) Shahdra metro station was teem by people
.83 First secretary general of United nations was __________?
(A) U thant (B) Kurt Waldheim (C) Kofi Annan (D) Trygve Lie
.84 When International Labour Organization was established?
(A) 1919 (B) 1945 (C) 1926 (D) 1947

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.85 A pound consists of how many ounces?

(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 16 (D) 24
.86 Which of the following instrument is used for measuring the purity of milk?
(A) manometer (B) viscometer (C) lactometer (D) hydrometer
.87 Who was the commander of Quraish of Mecca in the battle of Uhad?
(A) Abu Jehal (B) Abu Sufyan (C) Khalid ibn al-Walid (D) Amr ibn al-As
.88 The day of Arafah falls on which date of Dhu al-Hijah?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 15
.89 When did Pakistan join the United Nations?
(A) September 30, 1947 (B) October 30, 1947 (C) September 30, 1948 (D) October 30, 1948
.90 Lucknow pact held in Lucknow in __________?
(A) 1946 (B) 1857 (C) 1916 (D) 1930
.91 Which of the following shortcut key is used for repeating the last entry in MS Excel?
(A) Ctrl+S (B) Ctrl+R (C) Ctrl+F (D) Ctrl+Y
.92 Which of the following shortcut key is used for Save file in MS Excel?
(A) Ctrl++ (B) Ctrl+S (C) Ctrl+I (D) Ctrl+G
.93 If the distance between (4,a) and (0,0) is 4 then a = __________?
(A) 16 (B) 0 (C) 40 (D) 4
.94 If 0.25 is decreased by 50%, we get __________?
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/8 (C) 1/16 (D) 1/32
.95 Old name of Zimbabwe is __________?
(A) Siam (B) Zaire (C) Southern Rhodesia (D) Nippon
.96 Who was the first Pakistani ambassador to the United States?
(A) Liaqat Ali Khan (B) Abdul Hassan Isphani (C) Maliha Lodhi (D) Tariq Fatemi
.97 Which of the following country does not traversed by the equator?
(A) Kenya (B) Maldives (C) Sri Lanka (D) Somalia
.98 Where did the Watergate scandal take place?
(A) London (B) Manchester (C) Washington D.C (D) New York
‫ رطپساخبریبکوفتہوے؟‬.99
ْ
(A) December 5, 1958 (B) December 5, 1948
(C) December 5, 1936 (D) December 5, 1940
‫ اردودنہیانتزعبکرشوع ْہوا؟‬.100
(A) 1857 (B) 1867
(C) 1919 (D) 1935

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PPSC Lecturer Statistics/Subject Specialist (Statistics)/Statistical Officer Sample Paper 02

.01 The difference between 75 and 70 is not really the same between 25 and 20 in?
(A) interval scale (B) ratio scale (C) both A and B (D) none of these
.02 CNIC Number is an example of _________?
(A) nominal data (B) ordinal data (C) interval data (D) ratio data
.03 Likert Scale is an example of __________?
(A) nominal scale (B) ordinal scale (C) interval scale (D) ratio scale
.04 Time on a clock is an example of _________?
(A) nominal data set (B) ordinal data set (C) interval data set (D) ratio data set
.05 Histogram provides the information about the __________of the frequency distribution of the
data?
(A) Location (B) Spread (C) Shape (D) A, B , & C
.06 The Arithmatic Mean of first 50 odd numbers will be __________50?
(A) greater than (B) less than (C) equal to (D) twice
.07 The Arithmatic Mean of first 50 even numbers will be __________50?
(A) greater than (B) less than (C) equal to (D) multiple of
.08 Which of the following is an average?
(A) Proportion (B) Q3 (Upper Quartile) (C) both A & B (D) none of these
.09 Which of the following average is suitable for binary data?
(A) proportion (B) mode (C) both (D) none of these
.10 Harmonic mean gives__________?
I less weight to large values
II more weight to small values
III less weight to small values
IV more weight to large values
(A) I & II (B) III & IV (C) I or IV (D) II or III
.11 Which of the following is an informal measure of dispersion?
(A) Range (B) Standard Deviation (C) both A & B (D) none of these
.12 Consider a binary data set: 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1.
Then Lower Quartile & Upper Quartile will be __________respectively?
(A) 0.25 & 0.75 (B) 0.75 & 1.25 (C) 0 & 1 (D) 1 & 1
.13 Consider a sample of 100 students in which 6 males and 4 females, then the variance (s_square) =
__________?
(A) 0 (B) 4/15 (C) 6/15 (D) 4/10
.14 Consider a sample of 10 students in which 9 males and 1 female then variance will be
__________?
(A) 1 (B) 0 (C) 0.10 (D) 0.90
.15 Sheppard’s Correction concerns with__________?
(A) odd order moments (B) even order moments (C) both (D) second moment only
.16 Index numbers are ___________?
(A) mathematical averages (B) commercial averages (C) both A & B (D) none of these
.17 According to Population census 1961 of West Pakistan, sex_ratio at age group 10-19 is 120.6. It
means?
(A) More boys than girls (B) More girls than boys
(C) Equal number of boys and number of girls (D) Error in data collection
.18 Infant mortality rate (IMR) is a kind of which rate?
(A) Birth rate (B) Death rate (C) Marriage rate (D) Divorce rate
.19 Variation of which cause is non-quantifiable?
(A) Special cause (B) Assignment cause (C) both A & B (D) none of these

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.20 _________ means occurrence of Normal Variation?

(A) Common cause (B) Special cause (C) Irregular variation (D) Both A & B
.21 Consider: f(x,y) = 2; where -2x<y<+2x & 0<x<1.
Then marginal distribution of X will be?
(A) 16x (B) 8x (C) 4x (D) 2x
.22 The Multinomial Distribution reduces to the Bernoulli Distribution if we set __________?
(A) r = 1, n = 1 (B) r = 2, n = 1 (C) r = 1, n = 2 (D) r = 2, n = 2
.23 If np is a whole number then __________ of Binomial Distribution will be coincide to its
mean?
(A) Variance (B) Measure of Kurtosis (C) Measure of Skewness (D) Mode
.24 If U and V are two independent Chi_square variates with m & n degrees of freedom respectively
then the factor (U/V) will follow?
(A) Beta distribution of first kind (B) Beta distribution of second kind
(C) Gamma distribution (D) Pareto distribution
.25 Which of the following Univariate Continuous Probability Distribution has Shape and Scale
parameter?
(A) Gamma distribution (B) Weibull distribution
(C) Pareto distribution (D) All of these
.26 Weibull distribution reduces to Negative exponential distribution by setting its shape parameter =
________?
(A) zero (B) one (C) two (D) three
.27 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Probability of an impossible event is zero
(B) Expectation of a constant is equal to itself
(C) All measures of dispersion of identical observations are zero
(D) All of these statements are true
.28 Consider X is a random variable X: 1,-1 With correspondence probabilities p(X): 0.5, 0.5
Then which of the following statement is true?
(A) All odd ordered moments = 0 and even order moments = 0
(B) All odd ordered moments = 0 and even order moments = 1
(C) All odd ordered moments = 1 and even order moments = 0
(D) All odd ordered moments = 1 and even order moments = 1
.29 Cumulative Distribution Function (c.d.f) is graphically represented by ________?
(A) Histogram (B) Scatter plot
(C) both A & B (D) None of these is true statement
.30 Histogram of a random distribution shows __________?
(A) several peaks (B) two peak
(C) one peak (D) no peak
.31 If X follows Binomial distribution then COV [{X/n},{(n-X)/n}] = ?
. (A) its Mean (B) its Variance
(C) -pq/n (D) -npq
.32 If X1 follows a Poisson distribution with mean 1 and X 2 follows a Poisson distribution with
mean 2 , then the conditional distribution o f X1 given X 1  X 2  is ________?
(A) Poisson distribution (B) Binomial distribution
(C) Normal distribution (D) Geometric distribution
.33 If X ~ N(0, ) andY ~ (0, ) , then the quantity X 2  Y 2 is distributed according to?
2 2

(A) F-distribution (B) t-distribution

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(C) Rayleigh distribution (C) Maxwell distribution

.34 The Student’s t-distribution is a symmetrical distribution and its shape is __________?
(A) Normal (B) Leptokurtic (C) Platykurtic (D) skewed
.35 Which of the following function exist for every distribution?
(A) Moment generating function (B) Characteristic function
(C) Probability generating function (D)None of these
.36 The distinction between single factor and multiple factor design is determined by the number of
__________?
(A) Independent variables (B) Dependent variables
(C) disturbance terms (D) missing observations
.37 One restriction of randomization applied in which experimental design?
(A) Completely Randomized design
(B) Randomized Complete Block design
(C) Split Plot design
(D) Factorial design
.38 “Drug in a medical experiment” is an example of ?
(A) effect (B) level (C) experimental unit (D) treatment
.39 Which experimental design is entirely flexible in the sense that any number of treatments or
replication may be used?
(A) Completely Randomized design
(B) Randomized Completely Blocked design
(C) Factorial design
(D) Latin square design
.40 The value of Co-efficient of Determination increases as the number explanatory variables
__________?
(A) Decreases (B) Increases (C) Approaches to zero (D) Closes to error
.41 Criterion variable is another name of __________?
(A) Dependent Variable (B) Independent Variable
(C) Dummy Variable (D) Instrumental Variable
.42 Association between by two nominal variables is measured by __________?
(A) run test (B) odd ratio (C) control chart (D) One-way-ANOVA
.43 The distinction among One-way ANOVA, Two-way ANOVA, and Three-way ANOVA is made
on the basis of __________?
(A) number of independent variables
(B) number of dependent variables
(C) test statistic
(D) p-value
.44 Consider yi     xi   . If Co-efficient of determination between y and x is 100% then which
of the following statement will be true?
(A)   0
(B)   0
(C) Slope will be significance with p-value = 0.000
(D) All of these are true statement
.45 Consider the three data sets:
X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Y 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Z 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
Then Pearson’s correlation co-efficient will be 1 between __________&__________?

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(A) X,Y (B) X,Z

(C) Y,Z and Y,X (D) X,Y & Y,Z & Z,X
.46 For a large sample size, if population correlation co-efficient is equal to -1 then Durbin and
Watson Statistic will be __________?
(A) 0 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 1
.47 Consider two data sets:
X 10 11
Y 10 10
Then Spearman’s correlation co-efficient will be __________?
(A) 0 (B) -1 (C)+1 (D) an indeterminate form
.48 Goldfeld-Quandt test is used for __________?
(A) detecting Heteroscedasticity (B) removing Heteroscedasticity
(C) detecting Autocorrelation (D) removing Autocorrelation
.49 Logistic regression measures the relationship between the _dependent variable and one or
more independent variables?
(A) Categorical (B) binomial (C) Normally distributed (D) continuous
.50 Link function links the __________ and __________ the generalized linear model?
(A) intercept, slope
(B) random component and systematic component
(C) response variable, intercept
(D) continuous variable, discrete variable
.51 Co-efficient of association “Q” lies between __________and __________?
(A) -1, 1 (B) 0, 1 (C) 0, infinity (D) -1, 0
.52 Which of the following test is used for comparing more than two Correlation co-efficients?
(A) Chi square test (B) t test (C) F test (D) none of these
.53 Partial Correlation Co-efficient is calculated for _________?
(A) three variables only (B) at least three variables
(C) at least two variables (D) at most three variables
.54 Multiple Correlation Co-efficient is calculated in term of Correlation Co- efficient(s) when there
exist __________ in the regression model?
(A) at least two predictors (B) at least one predictor
(C) only one predictor (D) at least three predictors
.55 Consider a simple linear regression equation. If the independent variable is multiplied by a
constant, then which of the following can be effected __________?
(A) Multiple Correlation Co-efficient (B) t-test statistic
(C) F test statistic (D) none of these
.56 Consider: Y     X   If Covariance of X & Y is zero then _________?
i
(A) Correlation between X & Y will be zero (B) slope will be zero
(C) both A & B (D) Correlation Co-efficient will be 1
.57 In Goldfeld-Quandt test, divide the data into three groups and estimate the model in the
__________?
(A) First and Second groups (B) Second and Third groups
(C) First and Third groups (D) Second groups only
.58 Which of the following is not an assumption of Durbin-Watson test?
(A) Model exclude an intercept
(B) Predictor should be non-random
(C) There should be no lag values of dependent variable

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(D) disturbance term should be generated from autoregressive(I) process

.59 If Y depends on x & Z
Y: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60. , X: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6., & Z: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Then which economic error will be a cause of misleading least square estimate?
(A) Autocorrelation (B) Heteroscedasticity
(C) Collinearity (D) Simultaneous equation bias
.60 A Lorenz Curve is a graphical representation of Income/wealth distribution which is always
__________?
(A) Starts at (0,0) & ends at (1,1). (B) Starts at (-1,-1) & ends at (0,0).
(C) Starts at (-1,-1) & ends at (1,1). (D) Starts at (0,0) & ends at (3,3)
.61 If n = 40 then then the mean of Wilcoxon Signed Rank test will be?
(A) Zero (B) 120 (C) 410 (D) 205
.62 For testing the proportion of successes in a binary data is equal to a specified value, we will use a
test Statistic which is based on _________?
(A) Binomial distribution (B) Chi_square distribution (C) t-distribution (D) F-distribution
.63 Kolmogorov_Smirnov One sample test is used for testing the hypothesis about __________?
(A) Normal distribution (B) Continuous distributions (C) Discrete Distributions (D) B & C
.64 For ANOVA for the Latin Square Design with 5 treatments and 5 replication, it is suitable to
use F-test with degrees of freedom v1 = __________& v2 = __________?
(A)4, 16 (B) 4, 20 (C) 4, 12 (D) 4, 4
65 Which of the following is assumed in Hypothesis testing?
(A) Consumer’s risk (B) Producer’s risk
(C) Alternative hypothesis (D) All of these
.66 Which of the following test is not based on Chi-square distribution?
(A) run test (B) goodness of fit test
(C) test for independence of two attributes (D) all of these
.67 Which of the following non-parametric test can be used as an alternative to 2_independent sample t-
test?
(A) Wilcoxon Rank Sum test (B) Mann-Whitney test (C) Kruskal Wallis test(D) All of these
.68 In Chybeshev’s inequality, “k” is any number which should be __________?
(A) lies between zero and one (B) greater than zero
(C) greater than one (D) lies between zero to one inclusively
.69 The first derivation of log likelihood function is called __________?
(A) point estimator (B) score (C) normalizing factor (D) estimates
.70 Which test is used to test the variance of more than two groups and normality assumption is not
necessary?
(A) Mann-Whitney U test (B) Kruskal Wallis H test (C) Levene’s test (D) none of these
.71 Which sampling does not necessarily give a representative sample, though, if the listing of population
unit is in some periodic or cyclical order?
(A) Stratified random sampling (B) System random sampling
(C) Snowball sampling (D) Convenient sampling
.72 __________means the closeness to the expected value?
(A) Precision (B) Accuracy (C) Standard error (D) Sampling error
.73 __________means the closeness to the true value?
(A) Precision (B) Accuracy (C) Standard error (D) Sampling error
.74 In which of the following situation sampling is inevitable?

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(A)When area of survey is wide

(B) When the results are required in a short time
(C) When population is infinite
(D) In all the above mentioned situations
.75 Simple random sampling is applicable when population is _________?
(A) Small, Heterogeneous and readily
(B) Small, Homogeneous and readily available
(C) Large, Heterogeneous and readily available
D) Large, Homogeneous and readily available
.76 Which of the following has more dangerous effect on business?
(A) Seasonal variation (B) cyclical variation (C) secular trend (D) none of these
.77 How many basic components of time series?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12
.78 The process of eliminating unwanted fluctuations in time series is called ________?
(A) replication (B) statistical process control
(C) smoothing time series (D) including bias
.79 Which of the following method does not give the trend values at the beginning and at the end?
(A) Free hand curve method (B) moving average method
(C) Method of semi average (D) method of least squares
.80 Commercial average are mostly used for __________?
(A) Primary data (B) time series data (C) Cross sectional data (D) Engineering data
.81 Which of the following is not a mammal?
(A) hen (B)goat (C) buffalo (D) cow
.82 Small pox is a __________disease?
(A) Viral disease (B) Bacterial disease (C) Protozoa disease Fungal disease
.83 Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the idiom:
Ahmad sold his laptop because it was a real white elephant
(A) a rare device (B) a useless device (C) a very small device (D) an expensive device
.84 Choose the correct synonym of the word DETEST
(A) Prefer (B) Abhor (C) Like (D) favor
.85 Lake Saif-ul-Maluk is situated in ________?
(A) Karachi (B) Khushaab (C) Kaghaan (D) Peshawar
.86 Hiran Minar is in ________?
(A)Lahore (B)Sheikhupura (C) Gujranwala (D) Chakwal
.87 If the difference between 6 times and 12 times of a number is 36. Then the number is __________?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12
.88 Which number will come next ________? 13, 8, 12, 7, 11, 6, 10,?.
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D)10
.89 "Safi-Ullah " is the title of which prophet?
(A) Hazrat Nooh (a.s) (B) Hazrat Ibrahim (a.s) (C) Hazrat Musa (a.s) (D) Hazrat Adam (a.s)
.90 The Holy Prophet (PBUH) was of ________ years when his mother was died?
(A) 7 (B) 6 (C) 5 (D) 4
.91 International Population Day observed on __________?
(A)11th March (B)11th April (C) 11th June (D) 11th July
.92 The first gas field discovered at Sui in Pakistan in ________?

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(A) 1972 (B) 1982 (C) 1952 (D) 1962

.93 Former Home Minister of Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada died in suicide attack in Attock on
_________?
(A)16th August, 2013 (B) 16th August, 2014 (C) 16th August, 2015 (D) 16th August, 2016
.94 Karl Marx belonged to which country?
(A) Australia (B) England (C) Germany (D) Zimbabwe
.95 Which of the following is an internet browser?
(A) WAN (B) Netscape (C) both A & B (D) None of these
.96 Which of the following is an image file?
(A) JPEG (B) TIM (C) both A and B (D) None of these
.97 The parliament of Iran is named as _________?
(A) Jirga (B) Court (C) Majlis (D) Diet
.98 Scotland is known as _________?
(A)Land of Flowers (B) Land of Cakes (C) Land of Maple leaf (D) Land of Silver Fiber
‫ العہماابقلیکیلہپاردواشرعییکاتکباکانمایکےہ؟‬.99
(A) ‫ابلربجلی‬ (B) ‫ابگندرا‬
(C) ‫اجودیانہم‬ (D) ‫اراغمناجحز‬
‫ اتکب"آبایحت"ےکاخقلاکانم؟‬.100
(A) ‫رمزااغبل‬ (B) ‫العہماابقل‬
(C) ‫دمحمنیسحآزاد‬ (D) ‫اااطلفنیسحلی‬

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PPSC Lecturer Statistics/Subject Specialist (Statistics)/Statistical Officer Sample Paper 03

.01 Which of the following is not a two dimensional graph?
(A) Histogram (B) Risk graph (C) Bar Chart (D) None of these
.02 Histogram of a symmetric distribution makes a __________?
(A) Bell-shape (B) U-shape (C) A or B (D) None of these
.03 Shape of which distribution is equally spread and there is no peak?
(A) Normal distribution (B) Uniform distribution (C) t-distribution (D) All of these distributions
.04 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) both P-P plot and Q-Q plot require the location and scale parameters of the CDF
(B) both P-P plot and Q-Q plot don’t require the location and scale parameters of the CDF
(C) only P-P plot requires the location and scale parameters of the CDF
(D) only Q-Q plot requires the location and scale parameters of the CDF
.05 If frequency distribution is positively skewed then?
(A) Geometric mean will be an appropriate measure of average
(B) Arithmetic mean will be an appropriate measure of average
(C) both A & B
(D) None of these is an appropriate measure of average
.06 Median is considered the best measure of average for __________?
(A) Nominal variables (B) Ordinal variables (C) both A & B (D) None of these
.07 For a data set: U: 4, 1, 4. Which of the following equation is true?
(A) A.M(U) = 2{H.M(U)} (B) A.M(U) = 2{Mode(U)}
(C) Mode(U) = 2{H.M(U)} (D) H.M(U) = 2{Mode(U)}
.08 A frequency polygon __________?
(A) begins at X_axis but does not end at X_axis
(B) ends at X_axis but does not begin at X_axis
(C) begins at X_axis but also ends at X_axis
(D) begins at X_axis and may or may not be ends at X_axis
.09 If the curve move from low frequencies to the higher frequencies, it is known as __________?
(A) U-shaped curve (B) J-shaped curve (C) Reserve J-shaped curve (D) Symmetric curve
.10 Number of patients in different wards of a hospital, Gender wise and marital status wise is an
example of __________?
(A) Two way table (B) Three way table (C) Four way table (D) Manifold table
.11 An unbiased variance for a data set: 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 will be __________?
(A) 100 (B) 10000 (C) 25000 (D) 0
.12 Consider, U: -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5. Which statement is true?
(A) All relative measures of dispersion will be an indeterminate form
(B) An unbiased variance will be equal to zero
(C) Both A & B
(D) None of these statement is true
.13 Consider a data set: -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5.
Then Co-efficient of Range will be __________?
(A) +1 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) None of these
.14 There is no need to calculate any measure of average for which Co-efficient of Dispersion?
(A) Coefficient of Range (B) Coefficient of Q.D (C) Both A & B (D) Co-efficient of Variance
.15 Measures of dispersion are used to measure the _ Between each observation and Arithmetic
Mean of the data set?
(A) Arithmatic differences (B) Geometric differences
(C) both A & B (D) Correlation
.16 Consider a data set: -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5. The Co-efficient of Range_______?

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(A) +1 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) None of these

.17 The distance between the Median and Third Quartile is greater than the distance between Median
and First Quartile in a __________?
(A) Right-skewed Distribution (B) Left skewed Distribution
(C) Both A & B (D) Symmetric Distribution
.18 Accurate inferences can be drawn from statistics for parameter through_________?
(A) Sampling techniques (B) Non-sampling techniques
(C) Both A & B (D) Population Study only
.19 Which of the following is a restricted probability sampling technique?
(A) Systematic sampling technique (B) Cluster sampling technique
(C) Stratified sampling technique (D) All above are restricted sampling techniques
.20 Which of the following has at least two independent variables __________?
(A) ANCOVA (B) Multiple Linear Regression
(C) Both A & B (D) Binary Logistic Regression
.21 A researcher wants to measure the simultaneous relationship between 4 measures of collegiate
ability & 7 measures of success in a college. Which analysis will satisfy the objective of
researcher?
(A) ANCOVA (B) Discriminant Analysis
(C) Canonical Correlation Analysis (D) None of these
.22 A trivariate Normal distribution involves ___________?
(A) 3 variables & 2 parameters (B) 2 variables & 3 parameters
(C) 3 variables & 3 parameters (D) 3 variables & 9 parameters
.23 Metric Variable is another name of __________?
(A) Discrete variable (B) Continuous variable
(C) Random variable (D) Non-random variable
.24 If a multiple linear regression model consists of all qualitative predictors then it is suitable to use
(A) Logistic regression (B) ANOVA
(C) ANCOVA (D) Both B & C
.25 In a random experiment ?
(A) All possible outcomes are known but unpredictable
(B) All possible outcomes are not known and unpredictable
(C) All possible outcomes are not known but predictable
(D) all possible outcomes are known and predictable
.26 Consider 6 numbers: -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6. What is the probability of selecting -3?
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/6 (C) 0 (D) -1/6
.27 Crude Mortality Rate counts all deaths of ______?
(A) Only males of all ages (B) Only females of all ages
(C) Both sexes in a specific age period (D) Of all ages and both sexes
.28 Consider a population of 1500 adults in which 800 are job holders, 200 are looking for a job, 200
has retired & 300 has given up then Unemployment Rate will be ?
(A) 10% (B) 20% (C) 30% (D) 40%
.29 If the probability of success is 0.1 then the odds of success will be _________?
. (A) 0.9 (B) 1/9 (C) 9 (D) 1/0.9
.30 If two coins are tossed then the p-value for getting HH will be __________?
(A) 0.00 (B) 0.25 (C) 0.50 (D) 0.75
.31 If a = 2 and b = 4 then Median of Continuous Uniform Distribution will be __________?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

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.32 If U follows an Exponential distribution with parameter 0.5 then X will also follow Chi-square
Distribution with degree of freedom?
(A) 0.5 (B) 2 (C) 5 (D) 1
.33 The Inverse of the Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) is called ___________?
(A) Survival Function (B) Hazard Function
(C) Quantile Function (D) Entropy
.34 If X follows a Beta Distribution of First Kind with parameters a & b .Then
(X/(1-X)) will follow __________?
(A) Beta Distribution of First Kind with parameters 1/a & 1/b
(B) Beta Distribution of Second Kind with parameters a & b
(C) Gamma Distribution with parameters a & b
(D) Chi-square Distribution with degree of freedom a//2
.35 If U follows a Gamma Distribution with Shape parameter = a & Scale parameter= 1 and V follows a
Gamma Distribution with Shape parameter = c & Scale parameter = 1.Then the ratio U/V will
follow which Distribution?
(A) Beta Distribution of First Kind with parameters a & c
(B) Beta Distribution of First Kind with parameters 1 & 1
(C) Beta Distribution of Second Kind with parameters a & c
(D) Beta Distribution of Second Kind with parameters 1 & 1
.36 Beta Distribution of Second Kind contains how many parameters___________?
(A) One Shape Parameter & One Location parameter
(B) One Shape Parameter and One Scale parameter
(C) Two Shape Parameters
(D) One Shape Parameter and One Rate Parameter
.37 If U follows a Beta Distribution of First Kind with Parameters (a, b) then the term
(1 – U) will follow which Distribution?
(A) Beta Distribution of First Kind with Parameters (a, b)
(B) Beta Distribution of First Kind with Parameters (b, a)
(C) Beta Distribution of Second Kind with Parameters (a, b)
(D) Beta Distribution of Second Kind with Parameters (b, a)
.38 If U follows a Chi-square Distribution with d.f = 2 and V follows a Chi-square Distribution with
d.f = 4.Then (U/U+V) will follow Beta Distribution with parameters
(A) 1,0.5 (B) 1,2 (C) 4,8 (D) 1,1
.39 If X follows an Exponential Distribution with parameter = b and Y follows an Erlang Distribution
with parameters a & b. Then the term (X/Y)+1 will follow which distribution?
(A) Gamma Distribution with parameters a & b
(B) Beta Distribution of Second Kind with parameters a & 1
(C) Chi-square Distribution with d.f =1
(D) Pareto Distribution with parameters 1 & a
.40 By setting Scale parameter = 1 in a Probability distribution, the graph of Distribution_________?
(A) Will stretch horizontally (B) will stretch vertically (C) will not change (D) A or B
.41 Diffusion prior is another name of __________?
(A) Conjugate prior (B) Non-Conjugate prior (C) Informative prior (D) Non-informative prior
.42 Which of the following prior does not integrate to one?
(A) Conjugate prior (B) Proper prior (C) Improper prior (D) Non-conjugate prior
.43 If U follows a t-distribution with n degree of freedom then (1/square (U)) will follow _______?
(A) F-Distribution with d.f (1, n) (B) F-Distribution with d.f (n, 1)
(C) F-Distribution with d.f (n, n-2) (D) F-Distribution with d.f (n-2, n)
.44 Gamma Distribution is a Conjugate Prior of __________?

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(A) Poisson Distribution (B) Pareto Distribution (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.45 Which of the following Probability Distribution is a continuous analogue of Discrete Uniform
Distribution?
(A) Normal Distribution with Location parameter = 0 & Scale parameter = 1
(B) Gamma Distribution with Shape parameter = Scale parameter = 1
(C) Chi-square Distribution with degree of freedom = 1
(D) Beta Distribution of First Kind with both Shape parameters = 1
.46 If X follows an Exponential Distribution with Parameter = U1 and Y follows an Exponential
Distribution with Parameter = U2 then the term X-Y will follow which Distribution?
(A) Pareto Distribution (B) Log Normal Distribution
(C) Double Exponential Distribution (D) Gamma Distribution
.47 Which of the Probability Distribution concerns with Exponential Growth?
(A) Log-Normal Distribution (B) Pareto Distribution (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.48 If X follows a Standard Normal Distribution and Y follows a Standard Normal Distribution then
the factor X/Y follows which Distribution?
(A) Standard Normal Distribution (B) Chi-square Distribution
(C) Standard Cauchy Distribution (D) F-Distribution
.49 Cauchy Distribution is ranging __________?
(A) from zero to one (B) from minus to plus one
(C) from zero to plus infinity (D) from minus infinity to plus infinity
.50 Which of the following statement is true__________?
(A) Mean of t-distribution is same as the Mean of Standard Normal distribution
(B) Skewness of Chi-square distribution decreases by increasing its degree of freedom
(C) both A & B are true statements
(D) None of these is a true statement
.51 To check the impact of two categorical variables on a single Normally distributed Study
variable, which of the following Statistical method will be use?
(A) One way ANOVA (B) Multi way ANOVA
(C) ANCOVA (D) MANOVA
.52 Which of the following is the special case of linear regression models?
(A) 2 independent samples t-test (B) One way ANOVA
(C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.53 Which of the following represents a line?
(A) Simple linear regression
(B) Multiple linear regression with two predictors
(C) Multiple linear regression with more than two predictors
(D) All of these
.54 Which of the Regression model is interpreted as One Unit Change in Independent Variable Leads to
(100*slope) % change in dependent variable?
(A) Linear Model (B) Log-Linear Model (C) Linear-Log Model (D) Log-log Model
.55 There will be certain Multicollinearity among the covariates if __________?
(A) Tolerance > 1/100 or , VIF < 100 or, Condition Index < 30
(B) Tolerance < 1/100 or , VIF >100 or, Condition Index > 30
(C) Tolerance > 100 or , VIF < 1/100 or, Condition Index < 3
(D) Tolerance < 100 or , VIF > 1/100 or, Condition Index > 3
.56 Which of the following diagnostic tool detects Multicollinearity by using Factor Analysis?
(A) Tolerance (B) Variance Inflation Factor
(C) Condition Index (D) All of these
.57 For a One way ANOVA, which of the following statement is true?

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(A) v1 is less than v2 (B) v1 is less than or equal to v2

(C) v1 greater than v2 (D) v1 is greater than or equal to v2
.58 The discrepancy between two statistical models is called __________?
(A) Absolute goodness of fit (B) Relative goodness of fit
(C) Goodness of fit Index (D) Goodness of fit statistic
.59 Disturbance term captures the effects of those variables which__________?
(A) Are include in the model and they effect the dependent variable
(B) Are not include in the model and they do not affect the dependent variable
(C) Are include in the model but they do not affect the dependent variable
(D) Are not include in the model and they
.60 Statistical tools which are not influenced by Outliers are called __________?
(A) Absolute Measure (B) Relative Measure
(C) Inferential Measure (D) Resistance Measure
.61 In Regression Analysis, Transformation is done for which purpose?
(A) To ensure Linearity (B) To achieve Normality
(C) To Stabilize the Variance (D) For all of above purposes
.62 Co-efficient of Determination for a Non-linear Regression is formulated as _________?
(A) (modelSS-MeanSS)/(TotalSS-MeanSS) (B) (modelSS-MeanSS)/TotalSS-modelSS)
(C) (MeanSS-modelSS)/(TotalSS-modelSS) (D) (MeanSS-modelSS)/(TotalSS)
.63 In a predictive VS Actual Table, TRUE POSITIVE is called ___________?
(A) Sensitivity (B) Specificity (C) Type-I error (D) Type-II error
.64 Positive Likelihood = __________?
(A) Specificity/(1-Sensitivity) (B) Specificity/Sensitivity
(C) Sensitivity/(1-Specifity) (D) Sensitivity/Specificity
.65 Manipulated variable is another name of ____________?
(A) Dependent variable (B) Independent variable
(C) Instrumental variable (D) Categorical variable
.66 Responding variable is another name of ___________?
(A) Dependent variable (B) Independent variable
(C) Instrumental variable (D) From zero to plus infinity
.67 Consider: Y = a+b1X1+b2X2+b3X3+e, Then there is no multicollinearity if VIF = __________?
. (A) 10 (B) 0 (C) 1 (D)30
.68 Increase in sample size is considered a removal for ___________?
(A) sampling error (B) Multicollinearity (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.69 If there are 8 treatments combinations in a sign table it means we have __________?
. (A) 2 levels and 4 factors (B) 2 levels and 3 factors
(C) 2 levels and 2 factors (D) 4 levels and 4 factors
.70 Correction Factor means ___________?
(A) Grand Total
(B) Grand Total/ Sum of all the Observations
(C) Square(Grand Total)/ Sum of all the Observations
(D) Square(Grand Total/Sum of all the Observations)
.71 Bias is non-negative if expected value of an estimator is_________its corresponding parameter?
(A) Equal to or greater than (B) Equal to or less than
(C) Greater than (D) Less than
.72 Which of the following does not exist for Cauchy distribution?
(A) Maximum likelihood estimator (B) Moment generating function
(C) Both A and B (D) None of these
.73 Which of the following is not a sufficient estimator?

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(A) Median (B) Mode (C)Mean (D) None of these

.74 Which of the following property of a point estimator is considered a relative measure?
(A) Efficiency (B) Sufficiency (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.75 Which of the following a method of point estimation?
(A) The method of maximum likelihood (B) The method of moments
(C) The method of least square (D) All these methods are of point estimation
.76 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) A chi-square random can only be partitioned into two parts
(B) A chi-square random variable can never be portioned into parts
(C) A chi-square random can only be partitioned into three parts
(D) A chi-square random can only be partitioned into two or more than two parts
.77 If U is a random variable then E  4Y  E (4Y )   ?
2

(A) 4Var(U) (B) 16Var(U) (C) 2Var(U) (D) 8Var(U)

.78 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) a minimum sufficient statistic does not contain all the information contain in a sample
(B) a minimum sufficient statistic is a function of another sufficient statistic
(C) a minimum sufficient statistic is essentially unbiased
(D) none of these is a true statement
.79 A right skewed distribution can be
I) Leptokurtic II) Platykurtic III) Mesokurtic
(A) I or II but never be III (B) I or III but never be II
(C) II or III but never be I (D) I or II or III
.80 Consider p = 0.5, sum (Xi) = 5 and n = 10 then the likelihood function for Bernoulli distribution
will be?
(A) An indeterminate form (B) 1/25 (C) 1/32 (D) 1/1024
.81 Which of the following sentence is correct?
(A) Why she took tea? (B) Why did she take tea?
(C) Why do she take tea? (D) Did she why take tea?
.82 Change the following into passive voice:
(A) Let my shoes showed shine (B) Let my shoes be polished
(C) Let the shoes be cleaned (D) Allow me to polished shoes
.83 Another name of Indus civilization?
(A) Harrapan civilization (B) Taxila civilization
(C) Mohenjodaro civilization (D) Muslim’s modern era
.84 The temple of somnat was destroyed by _________?
(A) Tipu Sultan (B) Mehmood Ghaznavi
(C) Muhammad bin Qasim (D) Ranjeet Singh
.85 0.28 expressed in the form of p/q equal:
(A) 7/20 (B) 7/25 (C) 4/25 (D) 4/20
.86 Combine: 0.4+1.8+2.9+8.2+4.6 =?
(A) 17.0 (B) 18.9 (C) 18.0 (D) 17.9
.87 ISRAEL was the title of ___________?
(A) Hazrat Ibrahim (a.s) (B) Hazrat Hood (a.s)
(C) Hazrat Adam (a.s) (D) Hazrat Yaqoob (a.s)
.88 Another name of Masjid-e-Quba _______________?
(A) Masjid-e-Aqsa (B) Masjid-e-Taqwa (C) Masjid-e-Harram (D) Masjid-e-Nabvi
.89 BCG (bacille Calmette-Guerin) is used for protecting from ___________?
(A) COVID-19 (B) Cancer (C) Tuberculosis (D) Cholera

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.90 Unit of Force is_________?

(A) Joule (B) Newton (C) Kg (D) Watt
.91 Ali Hujwiri (Data Ganj Bakhsh) was born on ___________?
(A) 1109 (B) 1209 (C) 1009 (D) 9009
.92 IB is the secret agency of _________?
(A) India (B) Pakistan (C) Sri Lanka (D) Bangladesh
.93 Osborne Computer Corporation released first laptop computer in __________?
(A) 1961 (B) 1971 (C) 1981 (D) 1991
.94 Which of the following is a spreadsheet software?
(A) SPSS (B) Minitab (C) Microsoft Office Excel (D) All of these
.95 Which of following is the largest district (area wise) of KPK?
(A) Swat (B) Malakand (C) Peshawar (D) Chitral
.96 Who is current president of Egypt?
(A) Abdel Fateh el-Siasi (B) Abdul Hamid
(C) Hassan Rouhani (D) Recep Tayyip Erdogan
.97 Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer, Muhammad Ali Sadpara was born in Skardu on?
(A) 2 February, 1976 (B) 2 February, 1986
(C) 2 February, 1996 (D) 2 February, 2006
.98 Where is tomb of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir?
(A) Sheikhupura (B) Lahore (C) Aagra (D) Khuldabad
.99 ‫"رہمدومین"سکاکرعشیومجمہعےہ؟‬
(A)‫العہماابقل‬ (B) )‫ضیفادمحضیف‬
(C) ‫ااختفراعرف‬ (D)‫رپونیاشرک‬
100 ‫ظفل"رحبی"اکاضتمدایکےہ؟‬
(A) ‫ربی‬ (B) ‫آگ‬ (C) ‫اپین‬ (D) ‫رھتپ‬

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M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper

(CSAS, University of the Punjab)
.01 Which of the following is an example of Ratio Scale?
(A) Weight (B) Volume (C)Time (D) A, B & C
.02 3
If X: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then 
i 1
aX i  ?
(A) 6 a 3 (B) 6a (C) 116a (D) 116 a 3
.03 3 3

i 0 j  2
[ij  1]  ?

(A) 32 (B) 35 (C) 38 (D) does not exist

.04 A box plot contains how many whiskers?
(A) exactly two (B) at least two (C) at most two (D) only one
.05 How many percent of the data falls within the box in box plot?
(A) 25% (B) 50% (C) 75% (D) 100%
.06 Pie charts are generally shows ___________?
(A) percentage of data (B) proportional of data (C) Both A & B (D) None of the above
.07 Which of the following shape of Histogram shows that the distribution is symmetric?
I. Normal II. Uniform III. Camel-back IV. Bow-tie shaped
(A) I & II (B) III & IV (C) I, II & III (D) I, II, III & IV
.08 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Universal set in Venn diagram is essentially presented by a rectangle
(B) Universal set in Venn diagram is essentially presented by a square
(C) Universal set in Venn diagram is essentially presented by a circle
(D) Universal set in Venn diagram is presented by any closed figure
.09 It is given that Q3 (Quartile_III) = 14.90 & Q1 (Quartile_I) = 14.40. Then Outlier will be any point
which is___________?
(A) less than or equal to 13.65 or greater than or equal to 15.65
(B) below 13.65 or above 15.65
(C) below 14.40 or above 14.90
(D) less than or equal to 14.40 or greater than or equal to 14.90
.10 Classification of data is done on the basis of __________?
(A) Quality (B) Quantity (C) A or B (D) Normality only
If there are m columns and n rows in a table then there will be __________ cells in the table?
.11 (A) mn (B) m+n (C) mn-1 (D) m+n+1
.12 The Harmonic Mean of first 25 Odd number is __________?
(A) 625 (B) 2500 (C) 105 (D) not exist
.13 A person bought 3 kg tomatoes for Rs.60.00 on Monday and very next day he bought 2 kg tomatoes
for Rs.80.00. What will be the average price of per kg tomatoes on Wednesday?
(A) 70 (B) 35 (C) 28 (D) 32
.14 Consider average price of a dozen face masks is 100.If we add two face masks then average price
increased by 4. The sum of prices of the two newly added face masks will be _________?
(A) 9.84 (B) 204 (C) 26 (D) 256
.15 Bowley's Co-efficient of Skewness is calculated in term of __________?
(A) some of the positioning averages (B) some of the mathematical averages
(C) moments (D) commercial averages
.16 The Geometric mean of any two observations is equal to the arithmetic mean and Harmonic mean
of these two numbers?

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(A) Product (B) Square of the product (C) Geometric mean (D) Sum
.17 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Biased variance of first 7 natural numbers is equal to their Arithmatic Mean
(B) Biased variance of first 7 natural numbers is not equal to their Harmonic Mean
(C) Both A & B
(D) None of these
.18 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Co-efficient of Kurtosis can never be negative
(B) Bowley’s Co-efficient of Skewness will be -1 if Upper Quartile = Median
(C) Both A & B
(D) None of these is a true statement
.19 Which of the following Co-efficient of skewness is ranging from -1 to +1?
(A) Bowley's (B) Kelley's (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.20 Which of the following descriptive statistic ignores the 50% of the data?
(A) Quartile deviation (B) Bowley's Co-efficient of Skewness (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.21 Variance of 100 observations is 10. If each observation is multiplied by 3 and added by 5 then new
Variance will be _________?
(A) 10 (B) 95 (C) 90 (D) 35
.22 If 1, 2, 3, 4 are first four moments about an arbitrary origin respectively then Co-efficient of
Skewness in term of moments will be _________?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
.23 Which of the following measure of dispersion is corrected by Shepard's correction in a grouped data?
(A) Quartile deviation (B) Median deviation (C) Standard deviation (D) All of these
.24 Suppose Q3-Q1 = 20, P90 = 60, & P10= 22 then Then distribution will be _________?
(A) Platykurtic (B) Mesokurtic (C) Leptokurtic (D) Positively skewed
.25 Fisher's Index number are known as Fisher's Ideal Index number because _________?
(A) It lies between Laspeyre’s Index number and Paasche's Index number
(B) It is the Geometric mean of Laspeyre’s Index number and Paasche's Index number
(C) It satisfies Time reversal test, Factor reversal test and Circular test
(D) Its calculation does not depends on all the observations
.26 A composite price index based on the prices of a group of commodities is called _________?
(A) Laspeyre’s Index (B) Paasche's Index (C) Aggregate price index (D) Consumer Price Index
.27 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Cost of living Index is another name of Consumer's price Index number
(B) All the values don't have equal importance in un-weighted Index numbers
(C) Both A & B
(D) None of these is a true statement
.28 Consider a data set:
Year: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
W: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Then which of the following statement is true?
(A) All trend values will be same as the values of w by using Semi-average method
(B) All trend values will not be same as the values of w by using Semi-average method
(C) Only first trend value will be same as the first value of w by using Semi average method
(D) Only last trend value will be same as the last value of w by using Semi-average method
.29 In Moving Average method, averages are calculated in term of __________?
(A) Arithmatic Mean (B) Median (C) Mode (D) Geometric Mean
.30 Which of the following is an example of seasonal Variation?
(A) Demands of ice cream goes down in winter season

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(B) Demands of dry fruit goes up in winter season

(C) Both A & B
(D) None of these
.31 Consider two events: When we roll a fair die
Event_A: 2 appears
Event_B: an event number appears
It is an example of ___________ events?
(A) Mutually exclusive (B) Non mutually exclusive (C) Certain events (D) Impossible events
.32 Which of the following assumption is required by Classical Probability?
(A) independent events (B) equally likely events (C) both A & B (D) none of these assumption
.33 If we roll a fair die, What is the probability of an odd number when a number which is greater
than one has occurred?
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/5 (C) 2/5 (D) 3/5
.34 A joint discrete probability distribution contains _________ random variables?
(A) at least two (B) at most two (C) exactly two (D) more than two
.35 Consider a joint probability mass function f(X,Y) With joint probabilities f(1,1) = 1/13, f(1,2) =
4/13, f(2,1) = 0, f(2,2) = 8/13. Then P(X+Y = 3) =?
(A) 1/13 (B) 4/13 (C) 8/13 (D) 0
.36 Possible outcomes of tossing a single coin is an example of ___________?
(A) Disjoint events (B) exhaustive events (C) both A & B (D) none of these
.37 Consider Y is a discrete random variable. The values of Y with their corresponding probabilities
are as follows:
Y: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17.
p(Y): k, 3k, 5k, 7k, 9k, 11k, 13k, 15k, 17k.
Then E(Y) =?
(A) 959k (B) 963k (C) 966k (D) 969k
.38 If X follows a discrete Uniform distribution, where X = 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . ,12. Then Var ( X i )  ?
(A) 11.92 (B) 12.00 (C) 12.02 (D) 12.12
.39 If mean of Bernoulli distribution is 0.5 then its variance will be _________?
(A) 0.00 (B) 1.00 (C) 0.10 (D) 0.25
f (U )  eU , 0  U   ,
.40
Consider: Then  '  _________?
1
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) Infinity
.41 If Y follows a Univariate Continuous Probability Distribution f(Y), a  Y  b then Q3 =?
Q Q
(A) 3 3 (B) 3 3
 f (Y )dY   f (Y )dY 
a 4 0 4
3 b
(D)  f (Y )dY  3
(C) 4 f (Y )dY  Q 4
 3 a
0
.42 The values of points of inflection in Standard Normal distribution are _________?
(A) 0 and +1 (B) -1 and 0 (C) -1 and +1 (D) -∞ and +∞
.43 The ratio of two Standard Normal variables generates a _________ distribution?
(A) Standard Cauchy (B) Standard Normal (C) t (D) F
.44 If U follows a Univariate Continuous Probability Distribution which is ranging from a to b, then
Harmonic Mean of U is formulated as __________?

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b b b b
1 1 1
(A) a Uf (u)du (B)  U
a
f (u )
du (C) a U f (u)du (D) a Uf (u)du
.45 Which probability distribution is considered the Discrete version of Exponential distribution?
(A) Bernoulli (B) Binomial distribution (C) Negative Binomial (D) Geometric distribution
.46 Q1, Median and Q3 of Standard Cauchy distribution are_________ respectively?
(A) -3, 0 and +3 (B) -1, 0 and +1 (C) -2, 0 and +2 (D) -∞,0 and +∞
.47 Which of the following is the probability density function of Pareto distribution?
c.ac
(A) f ( xi ; c, a)  Where, a, c > 0 and X 0
xc  2
c.ac
(B) f ( xi ; c, a)  c2 Where, a, c > 0 and X 0
x
c.ac
(C) f ( xi ; c, a)  c1 Where, a, c > 0 and X 0
x
c.ac
(D) f ( xi ; c, a)  c1 Where, a, c > 0 and X 0
x
.48
If Cumulants K 4  44n and K 2  3n of  2 distribution then its 4 will be _________?
(A) 44n  18n 2 (B) 44n  27 n 2 (C) 44n  36n 2 (D) 44n  81n 2
.49  (5, 5) /  (4, 5)  ?
(A) 4/5 (B) 4/9 (C) 5/4 (D) 9/4
.50 If Y follows a Normal distribution with location and scale parameters  & 
Respectively, then the factor 1  Y    will follow Gamma distribution with __________?
2

2   
(A) Shape parameter = 1 & Scale parameter = 1/2
(B) Shape parameter = 1/2 & Scale parameter = 1
(C) Shape parameter = 1 & Scale parameter = 1
(D) Shape parameter = 1/2 & Scale parameter = 1/2
.51 t-test signifies _________?
(A) Partial Correlation Co-efficient (B) Multiple Correlation Co-efficient
(C) Rank Correlation Co-efficient (D) All of these
.52 If rxy = 1.00, ryz = 0.50 , & rxz = 0.50 then rxy.z = _________?
(A) 1.00 (B) 0.50 (C) 4/3 (D) 3/4
.53 Spearman's Rank Correlation test can be applied to both small and large samples for detecting?
(A) Multicollinearity (B) Heteroscedasticity (C) Autocorrelation (D) All of these
.54 Consider a data set:
X: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Y: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
Then Spearman's Rank Correlation Co-efficient will be _________?
(A) 6/35 (B) 6/11 (C) 1/35 (D) 29/35
.55 Farrar-Glauber test _________?
(A) detects severity of multicollinearity (B) locates which covariates are multicollinearity
(C) finds the pattern of multicollinearity (D) A, B, & C
.56 Arithmatic Mean of two regression co-efficients byx & bxy will be _________ r?

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(A) greater than (B) equal to or greater than (C) less than (D) equal to or less than
.57 Covariance between a variable and a constant will be _________?
(A) constant*[Var(variable)] (B) [constant*constant]*[Var(variable)] (C) 1 (D) 0
.58 Consider a data set:
X: -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3
Y: +3, +2, +1, 0, -1, -2, -3
Z: 13,13,13,13,13, 13,13
Then Common mean for the calculation of Co-efficient of Concordance will be?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12
.59 Which of the following property is satisfied by Sign Table?
(A) Sum of the product of the sign in any two columns is equal to one
(B) Sum of the product of the sign in any two columns is equal to zero
(C) Sum of product of sign in any two columns is equal to number of treatments used in experiment
(D) None of these is a true statement
.60 Which of the following experimental design controls two-way variability?
(A) RCB Design (B) Latin Square design (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.61 Consider a Covariance matrix  1 2  .There exists a/an ____________ level of internal consistency?
 
2 3 

(A) excellent (B) good (C) acceptance (D) poor

Consider a Covariance matrix   11  12  , 12   21   0 then  ij  ?

.62 n n

Where

 21  22  i 1 j i

(A)  0 (B)  0   11 22 (C) n( n  1) 0 (D) ( n  1) 0

.63 MSE (Mean Square Error) is formulated as _________?
(A) (Between Sum of Squares)/(number of groups - 1)
(B) (Between sum of Squares)/(Sample size - number of groups)
(C) (Within Sum of Squares)/(number of groups - 1)
(D) (Within Sum of Squares)(Sample size - number of groups)
.64 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) MLE of the mean of Bernoulli distribution satisfies invariance property
(B) MLE of the variance of Normal distribution satisfies invariance property
(C) Both A & B
(D) None of these is a true statement
.65 Consider MS-Excel returns the value of arithmetic mean of a particular data set is -3.20E-04. It
means __________?
(A) -0000.32 (B) -00.0032 (C) -0.00032 (D) -000.032
.66 Which of the following non-parametric test use Rank Sums?
(A) Wiilcoxon Rank Sum test (B) Kruskal Wallis H test (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.67 Which of the following non probability technique is considered as an alternative of Stratified
random sampling?
(A) Quota sampling (B) Cluster sampling (C) Snowball sampling (D) Systematic sampling
.68 Which of the following is an example of sampling?
(A) Blood test of patients (B) COVID-19 vaccination to all government employees
(C) both A and B (D) none of these
.69 The Design Effect is the _________? two Variances?
(A) Addition of (B) Difference of (C) Ratio of (D) Average of
.70 Mean Square Error = _________?

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(A) [Variance  Bias]2 (B) [Variance  Bias]

(C) Variance  [ Bias]2 (D) Variance  2[ Bias]
2

ENGLISH (Verbal Ability)

One incorrect sentence is followed by four options, out of which only one is correct, choose out the
correct option.
.71 Ali asks me how am I?
(A) Ali asked me how are I? (B) Ali asks me how are I?
(C) Ali asked me how is I? (D) Ali asks me how I am?
.72 Neither she comes nor goes.
(A) Neither her comes nor goes. (B) She neither comes nor goes.
(C) Neither comes nor goes her. (D) She does not comes nor goes.
.73 Huma is very admired by his students.
(A) Huma is more admired by his students. (B) Huma is much admired by his students.
(C) Huma is highly admired by his students. (D) Huma is strongly admired by his students.
.74 Aslam has full command at Persian.
(A) Aslam has full command of Persian. (B) Aslam has full command on Persian.
(C) Aslam has full command in Persian. (D) Aslam has full command upon Persian.
.75 Kamran is ill for fever. Then the correct sentence is “Kamran __________?
(A) is ill with fever. (B) is ill of fever. (C) is ill form fever. (D) is ill in fever.
Fill in the blank with appropriate preposition
.76 Ajmal has appetite __________ knowledge?
(A) of (B) for (C) about (D) in
.77 I forget to write __________ her gmail ID?
(A) out (B) in (C) down (D) for
The train called __________ Gujranwala?
.78 (A) at (B) up (C) to (D) in
.79 Choose pair of words that expresses a similar relationship: TEAM: COACH
(A) Club: Advisor (B) Mother: Father (C) Doctor: Patient (D) Boy: Girl
.80 Change the following sentence into active voice: My mobile phone was stolen on Tuesday night.
(A) Stranger stole my mobile phone on Tuesday night.
(B) Someone people stole my mobile phone last Tuesday night.
(C) Thief stole my mobile phone on Tuesday night
(D) Someone stole my mobile phone on Tuesday night.
.81 Change the following sentence into passive voice: The teacher will give you home work.
(A) Home work will be given to you by the teacher.
(B) Home work will be given you by the teacher.
(C) Home work will be given to you from the teacher.
(D) Home work will give you by the teacher.
.82 Change the following sentence in indirect speech: Farhan said “I will be there at 4 pm”
(A) Farhan said he would be there at 4 pm. (B) Farhan said that he would be there at 4 pm
(C) Farhan said I would be there at 4 pm. (D) Farhan confirmed that he would be there at 4pm.
.83 Choose the correct antonym of the word “GARRULOUS”
(A) Famous (B) Funnel (C) Silent (D) Social worker
.84 The word “FRAGILE” is closet in meaning to _________?

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(A) Weak (B) Showy (C) Solid (D) Strong

.85 The word “CANDID” is closet in meaning to _________?
(A) Tactful (B) Biased (C) Teacher (D) Truthful
Mathematics (Quantitative Ability)
.86 Which one number will complete the series: 6, 18, 54 _?
(A) 243 (B) 162 (C) 108 (D) 256
.87 Which one number can be replaced at the sign (?) of interrogation? 2, 5, 12, ?, 38, 57, 80
(A) 21 (B) 23 (C) 27 (D) 29
.88 What will be the next term in the series? ZA, YE, XI, VO ?
(A) WL (B) WU (C) WM (D) WK
.89 0.3% of 90 = ___________?
(A) 0.027 (B) 0.0027 (C) 0.27 (D) 0.00027
.90 If 0.25: x : : 3: 8 then x = _________?
(A) 2/3 (B) 3/2 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/2
.91 If 1/4 is decreased by 50%, we get __________?
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/8 (C) 1/16 (D) 1/32
.92 De Morgen’s laws stated that ( A  B ) '  ?
(A) ( A  B ) ' (B) Zero (C) A ' B ' (D) A ' B '
.93 If A  {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and B  {6, 7,8, 9,10} then A  B  ?
(A) {1, 2,3, 4,5, 6, 7,8,9,10} (B) { ,1, 2,3, 4,5}
(C)  (D) {10}
.94 If, 2 x 3
 16 .Then the value of x will be _________?
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 4 (D) 8
.95 1
If  5 then the value of a will be _________?
ba
1 1 1 1
(A) b  (B) b  (C) b  (D) b 
5 5 5 5
.96 Perimeter of a rectangle with sides A and B is _________?
(A) 2*(A*B) (B) 2*(A+B) (C) 0.5*(A*B) (D) 0.5*(A+B)
.97 Perimeter of a triangle is equal to the _________ of its sides.
(A) Sum (B) Product (C) Square (D) Square Root
.98 Area of a right triangle is _________?
1 (B) 1 (base * height )
(A) (base * height )
2 2
1 1
(C) (base * height ) (D) (base * height ) 2
2 2
.99 If A(2, 2) and B(2, 2) are the end points of one side of squares ABCD. Area of the square?

(A) 0 (B) 32 (C) 16 (D) 4

   ,d 
.100 What is the slope of the line that passes through c, d and  1  ?
c 
(A) -1 (B) +1 (C) 0 (D) Indeterminate Form

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M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper

(Government College University, Lahore)
Subject Based (60 marks, time allowed 105 minutes)
.01 The number of observations in each class is called__________?
(A) Width of interval (B) class width (C) class frequency (D) class limit
.02 Candidates’ roll number for a job test is an example of__________?
(A) Nominal scale (B) Ordinal scale (C) Interval scale (D) Ratio scale
.03 Ranks in Pakistan Army is an example of __________?
(A) Nominal scale (B) Ordinal scale (C) Interval scale (D) Ratio scale
.04 If X :1, 2,3, 4,5. Then which of the following mathematical relation is true?
i
3 5 3 5
(A)  (5 X i )   (10 X i ) (B)  (5 X i )   (10 X i )
i 1 i 1 i 1 i 1
3 5 5 3
(C)  (5 X i )   (10 X i )
i 1 i 1
(D)  (10 X i )   (5 X i )  2
i 1 i 1

.05 Stem and leaf display is used to/for?

(A) Split the large values in an easy way (B) Present the graphical behave of a distribution
(C) All of these purposes (D) None of these purposes
.06 Which of the following is a one dimensional diagram?
(A) Simple Bar diagram (B) Multiple Bar diagram
(C) Component Bar diagram (D) All of these
.07 Which of the following statement is not true?
(A) In a Bar diagram, bars arranged vertically on a horizontal base line
(B) an Ogive curve is used for representing positioning averages
(C) pictogram is a non-dimensional diagram
(D) The width of all Bars are equal to class interval in a histogram
.08 Which of the following graph is used to show the changes in the recovery of Covid_19 patient over
a specific time period?
(A) meridian graph (B) pie graph (C) line graph (D) bar graph
.09 Pie charts displays __________?
(A) Nominal scale (B) Ordinal scale (C) both A and B (D) None of these type of data
.10 Which mean is calculated by replacing all values below lower quartile by the value of lower quartile
& by replacing all the values above the upper quartile by the value of upper quartile?
(A) Trimmed mean (B) Winsorized mean (C) Both A & B (D) none of these
.11 Consider
X i : x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 . If x1  x2  x3  x4 . Then which of the following equation is true?
(A) H.M( X ) = G.H( X ) (B) Median( X) = A.M( X )
(C) both A & B (D) none of these is a true statement
.12 Mean = Median = Mode in __________?
(A) Univariate Normal distribution only (B) any univariate symmetric distribution
(C) any moderately skewed distribution (D) any highly skewed distribution
.13 The Geometric mean of any two observations is equal to the __________ of arithmetic mean and
Harmonic mean of these two numbers?
(A) Product (B) square of the product (C) Geometric mean (D) sum
.14 Which measure of deviation is not effected by change of origin?
(A) Quartile deviation (B) Range (C) both A & B (D) none of these
.15 Consider X: 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500. Then which of the following statement is true?

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(A) Range(X) > Q.D(X) > M.D(X) (B) An unbiased Var(X) > xm
(C) both A & B (D) none of these
.16 Which of the measure of deviation is required in box plot for detecting outlier in univariate data?
(A) Range (B) Interquartile range (C) Standard deviation (D) none of these
.17 For a data set: 700,800,900.The variance will be?
(A) Zero (B) One (C) Hundred (D) Ten thousands
.18 Shepherd’s correction is used to make an adjustment for __________?
(A) sampling error (B) grouping error (C) additional covariates (D) Normality
.19 An unbiased variance will always be__________ biased variance?
(A) less than (B) greater than (C) less than or equal to (D) greater than or equal to
.20 If 1, 2, 3 are first three moments about an arbitrary origin respectively then Co-efficient of
Skewness in term of moments will be __________?
(A)-1 (B) 0 (C) +1 (D) +0.5
.21 Consider 2 & 4 are first two event cumulant then shape of the distribution will be __________?
(A) Skewed (B) Leptokurtic (C) Mesokurtic (D) Platykurtic
.22 Consider a data set: X: -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3. Then which of the following statement is true?
(A) all odd order moments about mean are equal
(B) all even order moments are equal
(C) both A and B
(D) none of these is a true statement
.23 It is given that 1, 2, 3, 4 are the first four moments about an arbitrary origin then Co-efficient of
Skewness in term of moments __________ Co-efficient of Kurtosis in term of moments?
(A) equal to (B) greater than (C) less than (D) is the compliment of
.24 A composite index number is calculated for __________?
(A) More than two (B) Less than two (C) at least two (D) At most two
.25 Index Numbers are __________?
(A) Data reduction methods (B) measures of dispersion(C) Economic barometers (D) All of these
.26 Sample space can be represented by__________ way(s)?
(A) only one (B) two (C) three (D) four
.27 If two dice are thrown simultaneously. Then the probability of getting two numbers whose product
is odd__________ the probability of getting two numbers whose product is even?
(A) Less than (B) Greater than (C) Equal to (D) Less than or Greater than
.28 Which of the following variable is not Tolerable?
(A) Discrete random variable (B) Continuous random variable (C) Both A & B (D) None of these
.29 An integer is chosen at random from first 20 positive integers. What is the probability that the
integer is divisible by 5 or 10?
(A) zero (B) one (C) 0.50 (D) 0.20
.30 Consider H & J are two discrete random variables with their joint probabilities
respectively:
f(0,0) = 0, f(0,1) = 0,
f(0,2) = 0, f(0,3) = 1/8,
f(1,0) = 1/8, f(1,1) = 1/8,
f(1,2) = 1/8, f(1,3) = 0
f(2,0) = 2/8, f(2,1) = 0,
f(2,2) = 0, f(2,3) = 1/8,
f(3,0) = 1/8, f(3,1) = 0,
f(3,2) = 0, f(3,3) = 0.
(A) pr( H = 1) = pr( H = 2) (B) pr( J = 1) = pr(J = 2) (C) Both A & B (D) None of these

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.31 The variance of a probability distribution is also known as __________?

(A) Second central moment (B) second cumulant (C) both A & B (D) Mean Deviation
.32 The Multinomial Distribution reduces to the Bernoulli Distribution if we set__________?
(A) r = 1, n = 1 (B) r = 2, n = 1 (C) r = 1, n = 2 (D) r = 2, n = 2
.33 If np is a whole number then __________ of Binomial Distribution will be coincide to its mean?
(A) Variance (B) Measure of Kurtosis (C) Measure of Skewness (D) Mode
.34 If U follows a Binomial Distribution with parameters n1 & p and V follows a Binomial Distribution
with parameters n2 & p then the term (U+V) will follow Binomial Distribution with parameters
__________?
(A) n1+n2 & p (B) n1+n2 & q (C) n1.n2 & p (D) n1.n2 & q
.35 Gamma distribution with common__________ obey an addition property?

(A) Location parameter (B) Scale parameter (C) Shape parameter (D) Kurtosis
.36 If U follows a standard Normal distribution then square of U will follow __________?
(A) F-distribution (B) t-distribution (C) Gamma distribution (D) Weibull distribution
.37 MLE always satisfies which of the following property?
(A) Unbiasedness (B) Efficiency (C) Invariant (D) none of these
.38 Residuals VS predicted plot detects
(A) Heteroscedasticity (B) Linearity (C) Autocorrelation (D) Outlier
.39 Which of the following is not required for the calculation of Cramer's V?
(B) Pearson’s 
2
(A) r (C) sample size (D) Number of Categories
.40 To check the relationship between the Gender (male/female) & marital status
(married/single) of the respondents, which of the following is suitably used?
(A) Spearman's Rank Correlation Co-efficient (B) Cramer's V
(C) Mean Square Contingency Co-efficient (D)Co-efficient of Concordance
.41 F-distribution is actually the ratio of two __________ estimates of the population variances?
(A) dependent & biased (B) independent & biased
(C) dependent & unbiased (D) independent & unbiased
.42 For 2^3 factorial design, how many treatment combinations will be in sign table?
(A) at least two (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 6
.43 Which of the following property is satisfied by Sign Table?
(A) Sum of the product of the sign in any two columns is equal to one
(B) Sum of the product of the sign in any two columns is equal to zero
(C) Sum of product of sign in any two columns is equal to number of treatments used in experiment
(D) none of these is a true statement
.44 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) There is complete flexibility in the number of treatment in CR design
(B) There is complete flexibility in the number of replication in the CR design
(C) both A & B
(D) none of these is a true statement
.45 Secular trend is measured by how many methods?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
.46 How many stages of a complete cycle in a time series?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5
.47 For a population mean Y , Ratio estimator = Regression estimator if __________?
x
(A) r  1 (B) byx  1 (C) byx  (D) byx 
y
y x

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.48 Precision refers to the closeness to the__________?

(A) True value (B) Expected value (C) Variance (D) MSE
.49 Accuracy refers to the closeness to the__________?
(A) True value (B) Expected value (C) Variance (D) MSE
.50 It is given that sum of the ranks is 9, n  2 and n  3 then test statistic for Wilcoxon Rank Sum
1 2
test will be __________?
(A) 3 (B) 3 (C) 1 (D) 0
.51 The Median test is used for __________?
(A) Exactly two independent samples (B) At least two independent samples
(C) At most two independent samples (D) Only one sample
.52 Consider an information in a contingency table
Class I Class II Total
Above median 7 3 10
Below median 2 8 10
Total 9 11 20
Then calculated test statistic  for Median test will be
2

(A) 1 (B) 2/495 (C) 5/495 (D) an indeterminate form

.53 Which of the following hypothesis to be tested in Kolmogorov Smirnov one sample test?
(A) Random sample comes from a completely specified distribution
(B) Random sample comes from Normal distribution
(C) Random sample comes from Exponential family
(D) Random sample comes from any continuous distribution
.54 Which non-parametric is an alternative of One Way ANOVA?
(A) Run test (B) Kruskal Wallis H test (C) Kolmogorov Smirnov test (D) Sign test
Consider Yi     X i   . Then Standard Error of ˆ = __________?
.55

1 x2
(A) s ys 1  n (B) E ( ˆ )
 (x  x )
n 2
i
i 1

s ys 1 x2
(C)
n (D) s ys 
 (x
n

 (x  x )
i  x )2 n 2
i 1 i
i 1
.56 Consider Yi     X i   . Then Standard Error of ̂ = __________?
1 x2 (B) E ( ˆ )
(A) s ys 1   n

 (x  x )
n 2
i
i 1

s ys 1 x2
(C)
n (D) s ys 
 ( xi  x )2
n

 (x  x )
n 2
i 1 i
i 1
.57 Co-efficient of Association (Q) in term of Co-efficient of Colligation (Y) can be formulated as
__________?

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1 Y 2 1 Y 2
(A) Q  (B) Q 
2Y 2Y
2Y 2Y
(C) Q  (D) Q 
1 Y 2
1 Y 2
.58 Co-efficient of Association is ranging __________?
(A) from -1 to +1 (B) from 0 to +1 (C) from 0 to  (D) from  to 
.59 Consider three individuals possesses the attributes A, B and C respectively and their absence
denoted by  ,  and  respectively. Then ( )  ?
(A) N-(A)-(B)-(C)+(AB)+(BC)+(AC)-(ABC) (B) N+(AB)+(BC)+(AC)-(ABC)
(C) N-(A)-(B)-(C)-(ABC) (D) N+(ABC)
.60 Mortality rate is another name of
(A) Death rate (B) Birth rate (C) Sex ratio (D) Economic rate
(English, Mathematics, and Analytical; Time allowed 75 minutes)
English (15 marks)
.61 The word “FACTITOUS” is closet in meaning to__________?
(A) Natural (B) Brief (C) Artificial (D) Educated
.62 The word “AUSTUTE” is closet in meaning to __________?
(A) Clever (B) Humble (C) Imaginary (D) feeble
.63 Choose the correct antonym of the word “AGILE”
(A) Intelligent (B) Humble (C) Hard (D) Slow
.64 Choose the correct antonym of the word “BARBAROUS”
(A) Civilized (B) European (C) Boastful (D) Badger
.65 Change the following sentence into passive voice. “The boy ate the mango.”
(A) The mango eaten by the boy (B) The mango was eaten by the boy
(C) The mango did eaten by the boy (D) The mango has eaten by the boy
.67 Change the sentence into active voice. “Carry it home.”
(A) Let it be carried home (B) Let it be carried at home
(C) Let it be picked for home (D) Let it be carried for home
.66 Choose pair of words that expresses a similar relationship. VACCINE:ANTIDOOTE
(A) Infection: Elixir (B) Buffalo: Goat (C) Beggar: Thief (D) Cricketer: Ball
Fill in the blank with appropriate preposition
.68 There is no comparison of this mobile phone __________ that one.
(A) on (B) of (C) to (D) with
.69 Maria is envious __________ my popularity.
(A) for (B) to (C) of (D) with
.70 Sher Dil married his daughter__________ a business man.
(A) by (B) of (C) with (D) to
.71 Touseef __________ from smoking.
(A) keeps away (B) keeps away (C) keeps (D) keeps avoid
.72 He is the batter __________ I like.
(A) which (B) who (C) that (D) about
.73 If he worked hard he__________ pass.
(A) must (B) would (C) will (D) shall
.74 Coach was angry __________ my performance.
(A) on (B) about (C) at (D) to

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.75 Rehan delights__________ for running.

(A) for (B) to (C) with (D) in
Mathematics (15 marks)
.76 20% of 20% of 500 = __________?
(A) 20 (B) 25 (C) 50 (D) 40
3
What is the value of (3) ?
.77
(A) -27 (B) -1/9 (C) -1/27 (D) -1/81
.78 Perimeter of a rectangle with sides L and M is __________?
(A) 2(L*M) (B) 2(L+M) (C) 4(L*M) (D) 4(L+M)
.79 Diameter of a circle of radius r is __________?
(A) r (B) 2r (C) r 2 (D) 2 r
.80 Diagonal of a rectangle with sides A and B = __________?
(A) A  B  2 AB (B) A  B (C) 2 A  B
2 2 2 2 2 2
(D) 2( A  B )
.81 Consider a universal set S  {1, 2,3, 4,5, 6, 7} and A  {2,3, 7} then complement of A will be?
(A) {1, 4,3, 6} (B) {1, 4,5, 6} (C) {2, 3, 7} (D) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
.82 81 81
* ?
3 6
27 27
(A) 27 (B) (C) 27 (D)
2 2
.83 If 33 x  27 . Then the value of x will be __________?
(A) +1 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) an indeterminate form
.84 1 1
If  . Then the value of a will be __________?
lm 3
1 1 1 1
(A) l  (B) l  (C) l  (D) l 
3 3 3 3
.85 Which one number will complete the series: 1, 5, 13, 29, _____?
(A) 59 (B) 60 (C) 61 (D) 62
.86 Which one number can be replaced at the sign (?) of interrogation? 3, 5, _?_, 17, 33, 65.
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 13 (D) 7
.87 ( a  b)  ?
3

(A) a 3  b3  2a 2b  2ab 2 (B) a 3  b3  3a 2b  3ab 2

(C) a  b  2ab  2(a  b) (D) a  b  3ab  2(a  b)
3 3 3 3

.88 Which one letter will complete the series: A, D, H, K, O, __________?

(A) R (B) S (C) P (D) Q
.89 What is the slope of the line that passes through (3, 3) and (1/3, 3)?
(A) +1 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) indeterminate form
.90 Find the distance between the points (1, 3) and (0, 2)?
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 0 (D) 4
Analytical (10 marks)
Three males (Abid, Majid and Sajid) and three females (Fiza, Nida, and Rida) are spending some months
at Swat. They are to stay in row of nine cottage, each one living in his or her own cottage. There are no
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1. Nida, Abid and Sajid do not want to stay in any cottage, which is at the end of the row.
2. Fiza and Nida are unwilling to stay besides any occupied cottage.
3. Rida is next to Majid and Sajid.
4. Between Nida and Sajid’s cottage there is just one vacant house.
5. None of the girls occupied adjacent cottage.
6. The house occupied by Abid is next to an end cottage.
.91 Which of the following statements can be said to have been from two other statements?
(A) Statement 2 (B) Statement 3 (C) Statement 5 (D) Statement 6
.92 How many of them occupy cottages next to a vacant cottage?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6
.93 Which among statement(s) are true?
I Nida is between Fiza and Sajid
II At the most four persons can have occupied cottages on either side of them
III Abid stays besides Majid
(A) I and III (B) I and II (C) II and III (D) None of these
Nine persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I are the only candidates who can serve on three committees
labeled Z, Y, and X. Each candidate should serve on exactly one of the committees. Committee Z should
consists of exactly one member more than that of committee Y. It is possible that there are no members of
committee X. Among A, B, and C none can serve on committee Z. Among D,E, and F none can serve on
committee X. Among G,H and I none can serve on committee X.
.94 In case G and A are the persons serving on committee Y, how many of the nine persons should
serve on committee X?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6
.95 Of the nine persons, the largest number that can serve together on committee X is __________?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7
.96 In case I is the only person serving on committee Y, which among the following should serve on
committee Z?
(A) G and H (B) D and H (C) E and G (D) F and H
.97 In case, any of the nine persons serve on committee X, which among the following could not be
the candidate to serve on committee Z?
(A) D (B) G (C) I (D) B
Four captains and the first mates of three of them were called to attend the annual meeting at headquarters.
The captains were Liaqat, Masood, Nadeem and Omer; the first mates were Amina, Dua and Gulshan. Each
person in turn delivered a report to the chairperson as follows: Each of first mates delivered their report
exactly after her captain. The first captain to speak was Masood, and captain Nadeem spoke after him.
(Represent the person with first letter of his name)
.98 Which of the following order of delivering report is not conformable with the conditions?
(A) M,A,N,G,O,L,D (B) M,D,N,G,L,O,D
(C) M,N,A,L,D,O,G (D) M,N,G,D,O,L,A
.99 In case A is the third of the first mates to speak, and L is the captain whose first mate is not
present which among the following statements must be true?
(A) A spoke sometime before L (B) D spoke sometime before O
(C) L spoke sometime before O (D) O spoke sometime before L
.100 Among the following statements, which statement must be true?
(A) In case the second speaker was a captain, the seventh speaker was a first mate.
(B) In case the second speaker was a first mate, the seventh speaker was a captain
(C) In the third speaker was first mate, the seventh speaker was a captain
(D) In case the third speaker was captain, the seventh speaker was a first mate.

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M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper

(Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad)
Sampling Techniques and Research Methodology
.01 When sampling is done without replacement then ith unit selected at third __________to the
probability of first draw?
(A) = (B) > (C) < (D) may or may not be equal
.02  n 2
  Yi   ?
 i 1 
n n n n
(A) Yi 2  2YYi j
i 1 i j
(B) 2Yi 2  YYi j
i 1 i j
n n n n
(C) Y  YY
i 1
i
2

i j
i j (D) 2 Y
i 1
i
2
 2 YY
i j
i j
.03 N/n is known as __________?
(A) Expansion factor (B) Raising factor (C) Inflation factor (D) All of these
.04 Cornfield suggested a method that enables us to standard results from an infinite population when
simple random sampling is done __________?
(A) Without replacement (B) With replacement (C) A or B (D) by stratification
.05 Which of the following is an un-restricted random sampling?
(A) Simple random sampling (B) Stratified random sampling (C) Both (D) None of these
.06 Simple random sampling techniques is used when population is __________?
(A) Small (B) Homogeneous (C) Readily available (D) A, B and C
.07 Internal Consistency will be ACCEPTABLE if the value of Cronbach’s alpha falls between
__________?
(A) 0.50 to 0.59 (B) 0.60 to 0.69 (C) 0.70 to 0.79 (D) 0.80 to 0.89
.08 Consider a data set:
X Y Z W
1 2 11 12
3 4 13 14
5 6 15 16
7 8 17 18
9 10 19 20
Cronbach’s   ?
(A) 1 (B) 0.5 (C) 0.7 (D) 0.8
.09 Another name of Snowball sampling is __________?
(A) Chain sampling (B) Chain-referral sampling (C) referral sampling (D) All of these
.10 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Simple random sampling have same probability of selecting a sample
(B) Probability Proportional to size sampling have different probability of selecting a sample
(C) both A and B
(D) none of these

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Regression Analysis and Econometrics

.11 Consider Y
i     Xi   . It is given that n  27 and r  0.75 then the test statistic “t” for
Ho :   0 ?
(A) 75/4375 (B) 375/4375 (C) 25/4375 (D) 5/4375
.12 Which of the following test signifies pattern of Multicollinearity?
(A) F test (B) Chi square (C) t test (D) Run test
.13 Consider Y   X   X   . Then its Standard Error of Estimate is formulated as __________?
i 1 1 2 2
n n n n

 (Y  Y )
i 1
i
2
 (Y  Y )
i 1
i
2
 (Y  Y )
i 1
i
2
 (Y  Y )
i 1
i
2

(A) (B) (C) (D)

n3 n2 n 1 n
.14 Consider Y     X   . Then Co-efficient of Determination = __________?
i i
(A) SSR/TSS (B) SSE/TSS (C) both A and B (D) SSR/SSE
.15 In Distributed-lag model the current value of depend variable depends on __________?
(A) Present value independent variable (B) Past value of independent variable
(C) Error term (D) A+B+C
.16 r (Partial Correlation) =?
12.3

(A)
r12  r13r23 (B)
r12 r13r23
(1  r 2
13 )(1  r 2
23 ) (1  r 2
13 )(1  r 2 23 )(1  r 2 23 )

(C)
n(r12 r13r23 ) (D)
1  r13r23
(1  r 2
13 )(1  r 2
23 )(1  r 2
23 ) (1  r 213 )(1  r 2 23 )
.17 Spearman’s rank Correlation Co-efficient rs  1 if __________?
n
n(n  1)(n  1) n n
n n
(A)  di 
i 1 3
(B) d
i 1
i 0 (C)  d i 
i 1 3
(D) d
i 1
i  1

.18 Co-efficient of Concordance is ranging __________?

(A) from -1 to +1 (B) from 0 to +1 (C) from  to  (D) from 0 to 
.19 Which of the following is a true statement?
(I) Pearson’s Correlation is affected by change of Origin
(II) Pearson’s Correlation is affected by change of Scale
(III) Pearson’s Correlation is not affected by change of Origin
(IV) Pearson’s Correlation is not affected by change of Scale
(A) (I) and (II) (B) (III) and (IV)
(C) (I) and (IV) (D) (II) and (III)
.20 Goldfeld-Quandt test detects __________?
(A) Multicollinearity (B) Heteroscedasticity (C) Autocorrelation (D) Outlier

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Design and Analysis of Experiment

.21 Which of the following is an example of agriculture field experiment?
(A) Type of fertilizer (B) Variety of seed (C) Type of soil (D) All of these
.22 Which of the following is a basic principle of experimental design?
(A) Replication (B) Randomization (C) Local control (D) All of these
.23 Consider
P3 P4 P1 P2
P1 P3 P2 P4
P4 P2 P1 P3
Which is a layout of __________?
(A) Completely randomized design (B) Randomized complete block design
(C) Latin square design (D) Factorial design
.24 In a Randomized Complete Block Design, d.f for block is 3 and d.f for treatment is 7 then d.f for
error will be __________?
(A) 20 (B) 21 (C) 12 (D) 11
.25 Consider
4 1 2 3
3 4 1 2
1 2 3 4
Then Correction Factor (C.F) = __________?
(A) 75 (B) 90 (C) 10 (D) 30
.26 Consider
a b c d
b c d a
c d a b
d a b c
Which is a layout of __________?
(A) Completely randomized design (B) Randomized complete block design
(C) Latin square design (D) Factorial design
.27 Number of rows __________number of columns in Latin Square Design?
(A) > (B) < (C) = (D) < or =
Consider a 2*2 Latin Square Design.
3 1
1 3
.28 Then degree of freedom for error will be __________?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3
.29 Sum of squares for rows will be __________?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 0
.30 Sum of squares for columns will be__________?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3

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Probability and Probability Distributions

.31 If we toss a coin and roll a die simultaneously. It is an example of __________?
I Compound experiment II Random experiment III Non-random experiment
(A) I & II (B) I & III (C) I only (D) II only
.32 Which of the following formula is used for Circular Permutation when orders are same?
(A) (n-1)!/(n-r)! (B) (n)!/(n-r)! (C) (n)!/2 (D) (n-1)!/2
.33 Which definition of Probability is not applicable when the assumption of “equality likely” is not
satisfied?
(A) The classical definition (B) The posterior definition
(C) The relative frequency definition (D) none of these
.34 Index of Dispersion of Poisson distribution is equal to
(A) One (B) Zero (C) its mean (D) its standard deviation
.35 If X ~ N(0,1) and Y ~ N(0,1) then (X/Y) ~ which distribution?
(A) Standard Normal distribution (B) Gamma distribution with parameters 0 and 1
(C) Log-Normal distribution (D) Cauchy distribution with parameters 0 and 1
.36 Consider 1 & 4 are first two moments about zero of Normal distribution respectively then forth
moment about mean will be __________?
(A) 18 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 27
.37 In a Normal distribution, Lower Quartile = 10 & Upper Quartile = 20 then Mode = __________?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 0
.38 If U follows Normal distribution and its exponential function is equal to Y then Y will follow which
distribution __________?
(A) Beta distribution (B) Exponential distribution (C) Log-normal distribution(D) Gamma
distribution
.39 The Gamma distribution tends to Exponential distribution by __________?
(A) equating Shape parameter to 1 (B) equating Scale parameter to 1
(C) equating Location parameter to 1 (D) applying Central Limit theorem
.40 Shape of the chi-square distribution becomes highly skewed to the right for __________?
(A) all odd values of d.f (B) all even values of d.f
(C) large values of d.f (D) small values of d.f

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M.Phil Statistics_Entry Test Sample Paper

(Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan)
Each has four possible answers. Select the correct answer.
.01
 3xi =? , where X  D and D  1, 2, 3, 4.
i

(A) 120 (B)100 (C) 60 (D) 50

.02 4

If X 1  2, X 2  4, X 3  6 and X 4  8 . Then X i
?
i 1

(A) 24 (B) 36 (C) 42 (D) 48

.03 Students’ roll numbers in a class is an example of __________?
(A) Nominal scale (B) Ordinal scale (C) Interval scale (D) Ratio scale
.04 Shirt numbers of players in Cricket is an example of __________?
(A) Nominal scale (B) Ordinal scale (C) Interval scale (D) Ratio scale
.05 Which of the following graph is suitably used to represent the Probabilities of win and loss for a
team batting first in cricket simultaneously on each ball?
(A) Pie chart (B) Histogram (C) Line chart (D) All of these
.06 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) All graphs are charts, but not all charts are graphs
(B) All charts are graphs, but not all graphs are charts
(C) Graphs do not show the mathematical relationship between sets of data
(D) None of these is a true statement
.07 Which of the following statement is true?
(A) Arithmatic mean is not independent of origin. (B) Arithmatic mean is not independent of scale
(C) both A & B (D) none of these is a true statement
.08 Consider a data set: X: 1/2, 1/12, 1/30, 1/56, 1/90, 1/132. Then the Arithmatic Mean of X will
be __________?
(A) 1/6 (B) 1/7 (C) 6/7 (D) 7/6
.09 Which of the following assumption is required for Geometric Mean?
(A) Positive values (B) Non-zero values (C) both A and B (D) None of these
.10 Consider: U: -2, -4, 8.Then Geometric mean of U = __________?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) does not exist
.11 For moderately asymmetric distribution, (Mean-Median) = __________?
(A) Mean-Mode (B) 0.5(Median-Mode) (C) 1.5(Median-Mode) (D) 2.5(Median-Mode)
.12 Geometric mean exists of which of the following data set?
(A) -1, +2, +3, -4 (B) +1, -2, -3, +4 (C) both A & B (D) -1, +2, -3, -4
.13 Y: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then Median = __________?
(A) (Range)/2 (B) Q.D/2 (C) ( xm  x0 )/2 (D) ( xm  x0 )/n
.14 Which of the following is required for calculating mode of discrete frequency distribution?
(A) class boundaries (B) class limits (C) both A & B (D) none of these
.15 If Mitchell Starc, Jaspit Bumra & Jofra Archer have been delivered a bowl up to now with an
average speed 144, 144 & 130 km/h and having variability 3, 6, and 5 km/h respectively. Then who
will be more efficient?
(A) Mitchel Starc (B) Jofra Archer (C) Jaspit Bumra (D) All the bowlers have equal efficiency
.16 Quartile is a/an __________?
(A) Measure of average (B) Measure of variability (C) Test statistic (D) Attribute
.17 Consider
U: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
V: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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W: 2, 4, 6, 8, 1 0 .
X: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.
Which of the following equation is true?
(A) Range(U)+Range(V) = Var(W) (B) Range(V)+Range(W) = Var(X)
(C) both A & B (D) Var(W) = Var(X)
.18 Co-efficient of variation is used for __________?
(A) Comparing the different variations with same scale/magnitude
(B) Comparing the different variations with different scale/magnitude
(C) both A and B
(D) Averaging
(A) Quartile deviation (B) Mean deviation (C) Standard deviation (D) None of these
.20 Which of the following formula is used for Co-efficient of Quartile deviation?
(A) 2( Q3  Q1 ) (B) ( Q3  Q1 )/Mean (C) Q.D/Median (D) ( Q3  Q1 )Median
.21 The mean deviation is least when deviations are measured from the __________?
(A) most central value of the array data (B) most central value of the un-array data
(C) most repeated value of the data (D) Arithmetic Mean
.22 Which of the following statement is not true?
(A) Standard deviation provides a measure of the overall variation in a data set
(B) Co-efficient of determination measures the quality
(C) Pearson’s correlation co-efficient requires the assumption of symmetry
(D) Least square estimation does not require the assumption of linearity
.23 If positioning averages are given then how can someone check the behave of the data?
(A) using Karl Pearson’s co-efficient of skewness
(B) using Bowley’s co-efficient of skewness
(C) using Beta_1 (moments ratio)
(D) Using A, B & C
.24 Only 20% observations are excluded according to the formulation of __________?
(A) Pearson's Co-efficient of Skewness
(B) Bowley's Co-efficient of Skewness
(C) Kelley's Co-efficient of Skewness
(D) Co-efficient of Skewness (Beta_1)
.25 If T be an estimator of  based on sample of size n. Then T is a Consistent estimator of  if
__________?
(A) Var (T )  0 as n  (B) Var (T )  0 for small n
(C) Var (T )   for small n (D) Var (T )  1 as n 
.26 __________ of Normal distribution are unbiased and consistent estimator of  ?
(A) sample mean (B) sample median (C) both A and B (D) none of these
.27 If ˆ is a biased estimator of  then MSE( ˆ ) =?
(A)  E (ˆ)    (B)  E (ˆ)    (C) E ˆ    (D) E ˆ   
2 2 2 2

.28 The concept of sufficient estimator introduced by __________?

(A) R.A Fisher (B) M.S. Bartlett (C) Karl Pearson (D) Cochran
 x
.29 e 
Consider f  x   for x  0,1, 2, 3,... Then distribution of the sample values will be
x!
__________?

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e 1  e  n  
x x
(A) (B)
x1 ! x2 ! x3 !...xn ! x1 ! x2 ! x3 !...xn !
e   n e  1
x x
(C) (D)
x1 ! x2 ! x3 !...xn ! x1 ! x2 ! x3 !...xn !
.30 Which of the following is a point estimation method?
(A) The method of maximum likelihood (B) The method of least square
(C) The method of moment (D) All of these
Moment generating function of  distribution = __________?
.31 2

t 1 n 1
(A) 1  2n  2 (B) 1  2n  2 (C) 1  2t  2 (D) 1  2t  2

.32 Which of the following test is used for equality of variances of k (k>2) Normal Population?
(A) M.S. Bartlett (B) One way ANOVA (C) Run test (D) Sign test
.33 Consider a Randomized Complete Block Design
Varieties
A B C
1 2 3
4 5 6
Then degree of freedom for eij will be _________?
(A) 8 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 3
.34 The Statistical model for Randomized Complete Block Design with Replications within Blocks
would be __________?
(A) Yij ( h)    Ri  C j   h  eij ( h) (B) Yij    j  eij
i, j, h  1, 2,3,..., k j  1, 2,3,..., k
(C) Yijl    Bi  j  (B )ij  eijl (D) Yij    Bi   j  eij
i  1, 2,3,..., r i  1,2,3,..., r
j  1, 2,3,..., k j  1,2,3,..., k
l  1, 2,3,..., n
.35 Which of the following is required for the calculation of LSD (Least significant difference)?
(I) Test statistic t (II) Table value of t (III) MDE
(A) (I), (II) and (III) (B) (I) and (III) (C) (II) and (III) (D) (I) and (II)
.36 Another name of sample frame?
(A) Sample space (B) Account list (C) Sampling Design (D) Source list
.37 n
is known as _________?
N
(A) Sampling Fraction (B) Sampling Expansion (C) Both A and B (D) Sampling Inflation
.38 Available auxiliary information is used in _________?
(A) Ratio estimation (B) Regression estimation (C) Both A and B (D) none of these
.39 The Laspeyres’ formula is used for _________?
(A) The aggregate expenditure method (B) Household budge method (C) both (D) none of these
.40 The Circular test is extension of _________?
(A) Factor reversal test (B) Time reversal test (C) Both A and B (D) None of these
.41 A detrended time series is also known as _________?
(A) Stationary time series (B) Non-stationary time series (C) A or B (D) Geometric series

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.42 The method of least square is used for _________?

(A) Secular trend (B) Seasonal variation (C) Cyclical variation (D) Irregular variation
.43 A random variable is said to have a Bivariate Bernoulli distribution if it has_________ possible
value(s)?
(A) at least 1 (B) only 2 (C) only 4 (D) at least 2
.44 Co-efficient of kurtosis of which distribution has a constant value?
(A) Discrete uniform distribution (B) Continuous uniform distribution
(C) Poisson distribution (D) All of these distributions
.45 Which of the following distribution has constant Co-efficient of Skewness?
(A) Normal distribution (B) Exponential distribution
(C) Logistic distribution (D) All of these distributions
.46 Consider X N (0,1) . What will be the distribution of 3 X  5 ?
(A) (3 X  5) N (0, 9) (B) (3 X  5) N (0,1)
(C) (3 X  5) N (5, 9) (D) (3 X  5) N (5, 9)
.47 Consider Y     X   X   then ̂  ?
i 1 1 2 2 1
(A) (B)
  x y   x y     x x    x x 
2 1
2 2
1 2 1 2   x y    x     x y   x x 
2
2
1 1 1 2

 x . x    x x   x . x    x x 
2 2 2 2 2 2
1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

(C) (D)
  x y   x y     x x    x x 
2 1
2 2
1 2 1 2   x y    x     x y   x x 
1
2
2 2 1 2

 x x y   x x   x . x    x x 
2 2 2 2
1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2

.48 It is given that aX  bY  c  0 where a, b and c are constants and X & Y are variables then
Pearson’s Correlation co-efficient between X and Y will be _________?
b / a a / b
(A) (B)
a2 a2
b2 b2
(C)
b / a
(D)
a / b
b2 b2
a2 a2
.49 Which of the following diagnoses Multicollinearity?
(A) Condition Index (B) Variance Inflation Factor (C) Both A and B (D) None of these
.50 If Durbin-Watson statistic d = 4 then ˆ  ?
(A) -1 (B) +1 (C) 0 (D) an indeterminate form

Tick the “T” for True and “F” for False.

T F
.51 Graph of cumulative frequency distribution is called Ogive.
.52 Graph that shows Autocorrelation is called Correlogram.
.53 Variance is affected by change of Origin.
.54 Factor reversal test requires that (Price Index)*(Quantity Index) = Value Index

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.55 Mean of Poisson distribution is equal to its variance.

.56 F distribution and t distribution both ranging from 0 to plus infinity.
.57 The Durbin-Watson test requires that the regression model excludes the intercept term.
.58 Consider Yi     X i   . There are four variables involved in this regression
equation.
.59 The trend values are obtained by fitting least squares trend line in Ratio-to-Trend
method.
.60 Deseasonalized data = TSI*100

Fill in the blanks

.61 Box plot detects __________in the data set?
.62 ___________ is the most repeated value in the data set?
.63 Bowley’s Co-efficient of Skewness lies between_________?
.64 The C-efficient of Concordance (W) is due to_________?
.65 Formula of Spearman’s Co-efficient of Rank Correlation _________?
66 Wilcoxon Signed rank test is used as an alternative of _________?
.67 The Mann Whitney test statistic U approaches Standard Normal distribution if n1 and n2 both
are greater than _________?
.68 The Wilcoxon Signed rank test statistic T is approximately Normally distributed if n 
_________?
.69 Consider Yi     X i   .  is independent of _________?
.70 Correlation between two qualitative variables is called _________?

Short Questions (each question carry 2 marks)

.71
It is given that number of rows = number of columns = 3 Then the degree of freedom for  2 test
of Association will be _________?
.72 It is given that m1'  1, m2'  2, m3'  3 and m4'  4 then m4  ?
It is given that Q3  7 , Q1  3 and X  5 the Bowley’s Co-efficient of skewness will be?
.73

.74 For a sample 8 fruits in which 5 mangoes and 3 bananas. The variance will be?
.75 Complete the ANOVA table for CR Design?
S.O.V d.f SS MS
treatment

r (Y  Y )
j
j
2
.j
MST
..

error nk MSE

Total n 1  (Y
j i
ij  Y.. ) 2

.76 Complete the layout of Latin square design for 4 treatments A, B, C and D.

A B C D
B
C

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D
.77 It is given that table value of t = 2.50, MSE = 0.50 for Latin square design having 4 treatments then
Least Significant Difference (LSD) will be_________?
.78 Prove that rxy  byx * bxy
x1  x2
12   22 , the test statistic t 
.79
For H o : 1  2 , given that which has
 s2 s2 
 1  2
 n1 n2 
 
approximately t distribution with degree of freedom?
.80 Mode of F distribution?

Each Question carry 5 marks

X a Y b
m are constants.
.81 Suppose P  and Q  , where a, b, l , and
l m

.82 Show that rXY  rPQ . Prove that total area under the Normal Curve is Unity.

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PPSC Lecturer Statistics Written Test 2021 (Held on 08-11-2020)

.01 IQ Score is an example of ___________?
(A) interval scale (B) ratio scale (C) both A and B (D) none of these
.02 Range of Bowley’s Co-efficient of Skewness __________?
(A) from 0 to 1 (B) from -1 to +1 (C) from 0 to plus infinity (D) from -infinity to +infinity
.03 Co-efficient of Variation is measured in __________?
(A) Percentage (B) same unit as mean and standard deviation (C)Squared units (D)None of these
.04 Co-efficient of skewness measures __________?
(A) Peakedness of the shape of the distribution (B) Asymmetry in the distribution
(C) distance between two lines (D) Area under the curve
.05 Marshal Edgeworth Index Number satisfies which test?
(A) Time reversal test (B) Factor reversal test (C) Both (D)None of these
.06 An index number measures the change in a variable regarding __________?
(A) Time (B) Space (C) Time or Space (D) None of these
.07 Fisher’s Ideal is the __________of Layesper’s and Paasche’s?
(A) Geometric Mean (B) Harmonic Mean (C) Arithmetic Mean (D) Median
.08 Which of the following is used for secular trend?
(A) Link relative (B) Semi average (C) Ratio to trend (D) All of these
.09 Air ticket price arise due to COVID-19 is an example of __________?
(A) Secular trend (B) Season variation (C) Irregular variation (D) Cyclical variation
.10 Graph of Time Series is called __________?
(A) Ogive (B) Histogram (C) Historigram (D) Scatterplot
.11 Detrending means __________?
(A) Removing the trend from T.S (B) Removing the cyclical variation from T.S
(C) Both A and B (D) None of these
.12 The shortage of certain consumer goods before annual budget is due to __________?
(A) Secular trend (B) Seasonal variation
(C) Cyclical variation (D) Irregular variation
.13 Vital events mean?
(A) Factors which cause change in the size of human population
(B) Factors which cause change in the composition of human population
(C) Both A and B
(D) Sure events
.14 Vital Index means?
(A) The ratio of female to male in a year
(B) The ratio of births to death within a population during a given time
(C) Aggregate of child bearing women
(D) Aggregate of literary person in a country
.15 Population growth rate is formulated as __________?
1 1 1 1
1 1
 P n  P n  P n  P n
(A) r   n  (B) r   o  (C) r   n   1 (D) r   o   1
 Po   P1   Po   P1 
.16 Total Fertility rate?
(A) Aggregate of specific marital fertility rates
(B) Aggregate of general marital fertility rates
(C) Aggregate of general fertility rates
(D) Aggregate of age specific fertility rates

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.17 Which of the following statements is incorrect about correlation coefficient?

(A) It is independent of origin and scale
(B) It is the geometric mean between the two regression coefficients
(C) It passes through the means of the data
(D) It is symmetrical with respect to X and Y
.18 If there is no linear relationship between the two variables then which of the following does not
hold?
(A) b = 0 (B) a = 0
(C) r  0
2 (D) The regression line is either vertical or horizontal
.19 In linear regression, slope means __________?
(A) Percentage change in response due to predictor
(B) Change in response variation due to one unit change in predictor
(C) Unexplained variation
(D) The value of response when predictor equals zero
.20 Range of Multiple Correlation Co-efficient is __________?
(A) -1 to +1 (B) 0 to  (C) 0 to +1 (D) None of above
.21 Range of Partial Correlation Co-efficient is __________?
(A) 0 to +1 (B) -1 to +1 (C) 0 to  (D) -1 to 0
.22 If unexplained variation between X and Y is 0.40 then R  ? 2

(A) 0.40 (B) 0.50 (C) 0.60 (D) 0.80

.23 Goldfeld Quandt test is used for detecting ___________?
(A) Heteroscedasticity (B) Multicollinearity (C) Outlier (D) Leverage
.24 Chow test is used for testing __________?
(A) Multicollinearity in the data set
(B) One or two separate regression lines best fit a split set of data
(C) Outlier in the data
(D) Randomness in the data
.25 Jerke Bera test is used for ___________?
(A) Comparing more than two variances (B) Goodness of fit
(C) Comparing more than two means (D) Testing Correlation coefficient
.26 e follows a distribution with Mean ___________and Variance __________?
ij
(A) 0 and  2 (B) 1 and  2 (A) 0 and 1 (B)  and  2
.27 Dummy variable takes __________?
(A) Even values (B) 0 or 1 (C) not mutually exclusive values (D) Odd values
.28 Which of the following is not a standard deviation?
(A) Standard deviation of Y variable (B) Standard error of estimator
(C) Mean square error (D) Standard error of thee slope coefficient
.29  2

Q is known as _________?
n(k  1)
(A) Yule’s measure of association (B) Pearson’s correlation coefficient
(C) Spearman’s correlation coefficient (D) Cramer’s coefficient of contingency
.30 ( AB)( )  ( A )( B)
Q .This Coefficient of Association is due to __________?
( AB)( )  ( A )( B)
(A) R.A Fisher (B) Karl Pearson

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(C)George Udny Yule (D) M.S. Bartlett

.31 In RCB Design, subjects are __________?
(A) Treatments (B) Levels (A) Factors (B) Blocks
.32 Which of the following test can be used in RCB Design?
(A) Kruskal Wallis H test (B) Mann Whitney U test (C) Friedman’s test (D) Sign test
.33 Mann Whitney U test is an alternative of which parametric test?
(A) One way ANOVA (B) Two independent samples t test (C) paired t test (D) One sample t test
.34 Wilcoxon Rank Sum test is used for __________?
(A) Comparing 2 means (B) Comparing at least 2 means (C) Comparing 2 (D) Comparing 3 means
.35 r is taken from a sample n in a line , we use __________?
(A) Permutation (B) Combination (C) Both A and B (D) None of these
.36 E  X  E  X    ?
2

(A) Mean (B) Variance (C) Standard deviation (D) MSE

.37 The joint probability of two independent events A and B is __________?
(A) P(A)+P(B) (B) P(A)+P(B)-P(A  B) (C) P(A).P(A/B) (D) P(A).P(B)
   k   (1
.38 1
P X i
) This is known as _________?
k2
(A) Cramer Rao lower bound (B) Memoryless property
(C) Central limit theorem (D) Chebyshev’s Inequality
.39 Mutually Exclusive events __________?
(A) Always occur together (B) Cannot occur together
(C) Can sometime occur together (D) Can never occur together
.40 When we toss three coins the P(2 exact heads) =?
(A) 1/8 (B) 2/8 (C) 3/8 (D) 1/2
.41 If two events are mutually exclusive then P(A/B) =?
(A) 1 (B) 0.5 (C) 0.8 (D) 0
.42 For a Poisson distribution, mean and variance are related by _________?
(A)    (B)    (C)   
2 2 2
(D)   
2

.43 For a Binomial distribution, mean and variance are related by _________?
(A)    2 (B)    2 (C)    2 (D)    2
.44 The Normal distribution used as an approximation to the Binomial distribution when _________?
(A) np  5 (B) np  5 (C) np  5 (D) n  p
.45 Consider
12 
f ( x)    (0.5) x (0.5)12 x
x 
Then Variance of Binomial Distribution will be _________?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 3 (D) 6
.46 Central Limit Theorem is utilized on which type population?
(A) Unknown (B) Skewed (A) A or B (B) Normal
.47 Range of t distribution?

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(A) 0 to +1 (B) -1 to +1 (C)  to  (D) 0 to 

.48 Total area of a positively skewed distribution is formulated as _________?
  0 
(A) 
0
f ( x)dx  1 (B) 

f ( x)dx  1 (C) 

f ( x)dx  1 (D) 
1
f ( x)dx  1

.49 Sum of the squares of Standard Normal Random variates follows __________?
(A) t distribution (B)  distribution (C) F distribution
2
Cauchy distribution
.50 2
s
F 1
2
. This ratio is named F by _________?
s
2

(A) M.S Bartlett (B) G.W. Snedecore (C) Karl Pearson (D) George Udny Yule

.51 Moment generating function of Standard Normal Distribution __________?

t  t 
2 2 t 2 2 t2 2
(A) e 2 (B) e 2 (C) e 2 (D) e 2
.52 Area under   2  ?

(A) 95.44% (B) 99.73%

(C) 68.26% (D) 47.72%
.53 The Normal distribution will be less spread out when __________?
(A) The mean is smaller (B) The median is small
(C) The mode is small (D) The standard deviation is small
.54 If 600 families are selected from which 450 owned the house, a random family is selected. What is
the probability that its own the house?
(A)3/4 (B)1/4 (C)2/4 (D)1/3
.55 When H is rejected it means our finding __________?
0

(A) Significant (B) Insignificant (C) A or B (D)Difficult to interpret

.56 Newton Raphson method is used for ___________?
(A)Maximum likelihood estimation (B)Experimental design (C)Least square estimation (D)Consistency
.57 Within Treatment variation means?
(A) TSS (B) SSE (C) SSR (D) MSE
.58 Which graph used for type II error?
(A) OC Curve (B) Power Curve (C) Both A and B (D) Ogive
.59 If r is taken from a sample n in a line then we use __________?
(A) Permutation (B) Combination (C) A or B (D)None of these
.60 Number of linearly independent rows and columns of a square matrix is called __________?
(A) Order of the matrix (B) Rank of the matrix (C) Sum of Off diagonals (D) Inverse od the matrix
.61 A mathematical equation b  a b  a b  ...  a b  0 is an example of __________ ?
a 1 1 2 2 3 3 n n
(A) Orthogonal (B)Linearity independent (C)High Correlation (D)Over fitting
.62 First component in PCA is the linear combination of random variables with ____________?
(A) Maximum variance (B) Minimum variance (C)A or B (D)Unit variance
.63 t Distribution is due to ___________?
2

(A) Pearson (B) Hoteling (C) R.A Fisher (D)Cochran

.64 MANOVA stands for ___________?

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(A) Minimum analysis of variance (B) Multivariate analysis of variance

(C) Minimum absolute variance (D) Multiple analysis of variance
.65 ________ used to identify and measure the correlations among two sets of variables?
(A) Factor Analysis (B) Logistic regression (C) Canonical Correlation Analysis (D) MANOVA
.66 How many dependent variables in Multivariate linear regression?
(A) Exactly two (B) At least two (C) At most two (D)One
.67 Combinations are taken when __________?
(A) Order is necessary (B)Order is not necessary (C) Sampling W.R (D) Sampling W.O.R
.68 Scree plot is used to determine __________factors in Principle component analysis and Factor
analysis?
(A) Dispose (B) Give away (C) Retain (D) Certain
.69 In Var-Covariance matrix, main diagonals are __________?
(A) Units (B) zero (C) Variance estimates (D) Covariance estimates
.70 R language is the implementation of __________?
(A) C++ (B) python (C) S-language (D) minitab
.71 R language was developed by ____________?
(A) Norman H. Nie, Hadlai and Dale H. Bent (B) B.F Ryan, Thomas A. Ryan and Brian L. Joiner
(C) Ronald Becker (D) Rick Becker and John Chamber
.72 Lottery method is an example of __________?
(A) Simple random sampling (B) Cluster sampling (C) Convenient sampling (D)Snowball sampling
.73 A population from which the information is desired is called ___________?
(A) Sampled population (B) Target population (C) Infinite population (D) Animated population
.74 Decrease Sampling Error by increasing __________?
(A) N (B) n (C) Standard deviation (D) Variance
.81 Nanotechnology?
(A) Extreme large things (B) Extreme small things (C) Things in water bodies (D) Chemicals
.82 Hazrat Issa (a.s) was born at __________?
(A) Baghdad (B) Jerosalem (C) Cairo (D) Damascus
.83 How many Ansaar accept Islam on 11 Nabvi?
(A) Four (B) Five (C) Six (D) Seven
.84 Choose pair of words that expresses a similar relationship? PROJECTOR: TREJECTORY
(A) Friend: Foe (B) Soil: Air (C) Girl: boy (D)Satellite, Orbit
.85 The word AGREEMENT is closet in meaning to?
(A) Interest (B) Dedicate (C) Assent (D) Enemy
.86 Tayyib Erdogon was selected as __________ president in 2018?
(A) First (B) Second (C) Third (D) Forth
.87 Chand Bibi was first Muslim ruler of __________?
(A) Egypt (B) Agra (C) Lucknow (D) Bijapur
.88 Who coined the name of Pakistan?
(A) Liaqat Ali Khan (B) Allama Iqbal (C) Chaudhery Rehmat Ali (D) Shaukat Ali Johar
.89 Working Boundary is another name of __________?
(A) Separates Baluchistan, Pakistan from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
(B) Separates Sindh, Pakistan from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
(C) Separate Bangladesh from India
(D) Separates Punjab, Pakistan from Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir

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.90 L.C.M of 16, 8, 12, 24?

(A) 48 (B) 24 (C) 12 (D) 6
.91 A person purchased 10 pencils in 500 rupees. If he sold 4 pencils in 220 rupees. Then what is the
selling price of a single pencil?
(A) 50 (B) 55 (C) 60 (D) 65
.92 Another name of FEVER?
(A) Diabetes (B) Tuberculosis (C) Pyrexia (D) Carcinoma
.93 You Tube was launched on __________?
(A) 2002 (B) 2005 (C) 2007 (D) 2011
.94 How to insert sound in MS-Word?
(A) by Object menu (B) by Insert (C) by References (D) by Page layout
.95 On the morning of 7 April 2017, US launched 59 ___________cruise missile from the Mediterranean
Sea into Syria, aimed at Shayrat Airbase controlled Syrian government.
(A) DF-41 (B) UGM-133 Trident II (A) Tomahawk (B) Jericho III
.96 Pink Sand Beach located in Harbour island which is a part of _________?
(A) Australia (B) Bahamas (A) Canada (B) England
.97 International Islamic University is in which city?
(A) Bahawalpur (B) Karachi (A) Lahore (B) Islamabad
.98 The Rhine river of Northern Europe empties into __________sea?
(A) the Belt sea (B) the North sea (C) the bay of Biscay (B) the Adriatic sea
‫ درجذلیںیمےسدرتسےلمجاکااختنبرکںی؟‬.99
(A( ‫ارگوتںیمرکایچایگوتآپاکاسامنےلآوںاگ‬ (B) ‫ارگںیمرکایچایگوتآپاکاسامن اتیآوںاگ‬
(C) ‫ارگوتںیمرکایچایگوتآپاکاسامن اتیآوںاگ‬ (D) ‫ارگںیموترکایچایگآپاکاسامنےلآوںاگ‬
‫ "ایدخا"دقرتاہللاہشبےنبکیھکل؟‬.100
(A) 1947 (B) 1948 (C) 1949 (B) 1950
Note: Q.76 to 80 are missing.

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Solution: Sample paper # 01

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 26 51 76
2 27 52 77
3 28 53 78
4 29 54 79
5 30 55 80
6 31 56 81
7 32 57 82
8 33 58 83
9 34 59 84
10 35 60 85
11 36 61 86
12 37 62 87
13 38 63 88
14 39 64 89
15 40 65 90
16 41 66 91
17 42 67 92
18 43 68 93
19 44 69 94
20 45 70 95
21 46 71 96
22 47 72 97
23 48 73 98
24 49 74 99
25 50 75 100

Solution Model paper # 02

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 26 51 76
2 27 52 77
3 28 53 78
4 29 54 79
5 30 55 80
6 31 56 81
7 32 57 82
8 33 58 83
9 34 59 84
10 35 60 85
11 36 61 86
12 37 62 87
13 38 63 88
14 39 64 89
15 40 65 90
16 41 66 91
17 42 67 92
18 43 68 93
19 44 69 94
20 45 70 95
21 46 71 96
22 47 72 97
23 48 73 98
24 49 74 99
25 50 75 100

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Solution Model paper # 03

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 26 51 76
2 27 52 77
3 28 53 78
4 29 54 79
5 30 55 80
6 31 56 81
7 32 57 82
8 33 58 83
9 34 59 84
10 35 60 85
11 36 61 86
12 37 62 87
13 38 63 88
14 39 64 89
15 40 65 90
16 41 66 91
17 42 67 92
18 43 68 93
19 44 69 94
20 45 70 95
21 46 71 96
22 47 72 97
23 48 73 98
24 49 74 99
25 50 75 100

Solution: M.Phil Entry Test PU # 04

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 26 51 76
2 27 52 77
3 28 53 78
4 29 54 79
5 30 55 80
6 31 56 81
7 32 57 82
8 33 58 83
9 34 59 84
10 35 60 85
11 36 61 86
12 37 62 87
13 38 63 88
14 39 64 89
15 40 65 90
16 41 66 91
17 42 67 92
18 43 68 93
19 44 69 94
20 45 70 95
21 46 71 96
22 47 72 97
23 48 73 98
24 49 74 99
25 50 75 100

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Solution: M.Phil Entry Test GCU # 05

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 26 51 76
2 27 52 77
3 28 53 78
4 29 54 79
5 30 55 80
6 31 56 81
7 32 57 82
8 33 58 83
9 34 59 84
10 35 60 85
11 36 61 86
12 37 62 87
13 38 63 88
14 39 64 89
15 40 65 90
16 41 66 91
17 42 67 92
18 43 68 93
19 44 69 94
20 45 70 95
21 46 71 96
22 47 72 97
23 48 73 98
24 49 74 99
25 50 75 100

Solution: M.Phil Entry Test QAU # 06

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 11 21 31
2 12 22 32
3 13 23 33
4 14 24 34
5 15 25 35
6 16 26 36
7 17 27 37
8 18 28 38
9 19 29 39
10 20 30 40

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Solution: M.Phil Entry Test BZU # 07

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 26
2 27
3 28
4 29
5 30
6 31
7 32
8 33
9 34
10 35
11 36
12 37
13 38
14 39
15 40
16 41
17 42
18 43
19 44
20 45
21 46
22 47
23 48
24 49
25 50

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
T T F T T F F F T T

61 Outlier
62 Mode
63 From -1 to +1
64 Maurice G.Kendal
65 n
6 di2
1 i 1

n(n 2  1)
66 One sample t test
67 8
68 25
69 Origin
70 Association

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.71 d. f  (c 1)(r 1) .72 m4  m4'  4m3' m1'  6m2' (m1' )2  3(m1' )4
d. f  (3 1)(3 1) m4  (4)  4(3)(1)  6(2)(1) 2  3(1) 4
d. f  (2)(2) m4  4  12  12  3
d. f 4 m4  1
.73 Q3  Q1  2 X .74 In term of Proportion
SK 
Q3  Q1 npq
Variance 
7  3  2(5) n 1
SK 
73 y y n y
p  , q  1  q 
10  10 n n n
SK 
4 yn y
n  
SK  0 n n 
Variance 
n 1
.75 Degree of freedom for y n  y
treatments = k-1 Variance 
n(n  1)
& (5)(3)
Variance 
k r
(8)(7)
SS   (Yij  Y. j )2 15
j 1 i 1 Variance 
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.76
A B C D
B C D A
C D A B
D A B C
.77 LSD = .78 n n

2.50 (0.50)(4)  ( X i  X )(Yi  Y ) (X i  X )(Yi  Y )

5 rxy  i 1
n
. i 1
n
LSD =
2
2
(Xi  X )
i 1
2
 (Y  Y )
i 1
i
2

5
LSD = 2
 n  n

  ( X i  X )(Yi  Y )  (X
2  X )(Yi  Y )
i
rxy   i 1   i 1
n n

(X  (Y  Y )
n n
 X)  ( X i  X )2  (Yi  Y )2
2 2
i i
i 1 i 1 i 1 i 1
.79
 s12   s22  
2 .80 v2 (v1  2)
F
      v1 (v2  2)
 n1   n2  
v  2 2
 s12   s12 
   
 n1    n1 
n1  1 n1  1

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.81
n n

 ( X i  X )(Yi  Y )  (a  lP )  (a  lP )  (b  mQ )  (b  mQ) 

i i
rxy  i 1
 i 1
n n 2

 (Y  Y )  ( X
n n
 X )2  (a  lP)  (a  lP )   (b  mQ)  (b  mQ) 
2 2
i i
i 1 i i 1 i 1
n n

 lP  lP )  mQ  mQ) 

i i lm  Pi  P )   Qi  Q ) 
rxy  i 1
 i 1
n 2 n n 2 n

 lPi  lP   mQi  mQ    Pi  P   Q  Q 

2 2
lm i
i 1 i 1 i 1 i 1
n

  P  P )  Q  Q) 
i i
 rxy  i 1
 rPQ
n 2 n

  P  P   Q  Q 
2
i i
i 1 i 1

.82
 1 i x 
1 ( )2
  2
Area  e 2 
dx

x 
w i   w  xi  

 1 xi   2
1  ( )
Area 
 2 e

2 
dx

1  21 w2  2  21 w2 
0   1 2
1 2 
1 ww
Area 
 2  e  dw  2   e dw  0 e dw  2  0 e dw

22

2  u 1  1   u 21 
 
1 2 1 1 1
u  w  du  .2wdw, Area   e . du   .   e .u du   
2 2  0 2u   0   2
1
Area   1


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Solution: Lecturer Statistics test 2020 # 08

Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D Sr.# A B C D
1 26 51 76
2 27 52 77
3 28 53 78
4 29 54 79
5 30 55 80
6 31 56 81
7 32 57 82
8 33 58 83
9 34 59 84
10 35 60 85
11 36 61 86
12 37 62 87
13 38 63 88
14 39 64 89
15 40 65 90
16 41 66 91
17 42 67 92
18 43 68 93
19 44 69 94
20 45 70 95
21 46 71 96
22 47 72 97
23 48 73 98
24 49 74 99
25 50 75 100

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