STATISTICS
ICS – 2nd Year
QUESTION BANK
CH#11 (Sampling Techniques And Sampling Distributions)
MCQs
1. A sample is a part of the
(a) Sampling (b) Population (c) Unit (d) Error
2. Which of the following type of population is subdivided into stratified Random Sampling?
(a) Homogeneous (b) Heterogeneous (c) Hexogeneous (d) None of these
3. Standard error of the mean is the standard deviation of the
(a) Population (b) Sample
(c) Sampling distribution of mean (d) None of these
4. A value calculated from the sample is called a
(a) Parameter (b) Statistic (c) Mean (d) Proportion
5. If samples of sizes n are drawn with replacement from a population of size N with mean and
variance 2 , the standard error of the sample means X is
2 N n N n
(a) (b) (c) (d)
n n n N 1 n N 1
6. If samples of sizes n are drawn without replacement from a population of size N with mean and
variance 2 , the standard error of the sample means X is
2 N n N n
(a) (b) (c) (d)
n n n N 1 n N 1
7. The finite error increases when the sample size is
(a) Increased (b) Decreased (c) Fixed (d) Small
8. The finite population correction factor is
n N N n N n
(a) (b) (c) (d)
N n N 1 N 1
9. In sampling without replacement the relation holds if
(a) n N (b) n N (c) n N (d) n N
10. In sampling with replacement, possible samples can be performed if
(a) n N (b) n N (c) n N (d) All possible
11. The difference between a statistic and parameter is called
(a) Sampling error (b) Standard error
(c) Systematic error (d) Non sampling error
12. In sampling with replacement a sampling unit can be selected
(a) Only once (b) Only twice (c) Less than once (d) More than once
13. In sampling without replacement a sampling unit can be selected
(a) Only once (b) Twice (c) Less than one (d) More than one
14. When sampling is done with or without replacement then x x is equal to
2 1
(a) 1 2 (b) 2 1 (c) 2 1 (d) 1 2
15. The random digit from 0 to 9 are called
(a) Single digit (b) Double digit (c) Triple digit (d) All
1. (b) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. (b) 5. (b) 6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (d) 9. (b) 10. (d)
11. (a) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. 15.
Short Questions
SECTION I
Q.2. Write short answers of the following questions.
1. Define population and sample.
2. Define sampling units.
3. What is a frame?
4. Distinguish between finite and infinite populations.
5. What is the difference between sampling with replacement and sampling without replacement?
6. Define sampling or What is sampling?
7. Define parameter and statistic.
8. Differentiate between sampling error and non-sampling error.
9. Define bias and sampling error.
10. Define a sample design.
11. Distinguish between Random and non-random sampling/ probability samples and non-probability
samples.
12. Define probability sampling.
13. Define cluster sampling.
14. Define sampling distribution.
15. Define standard error.
16. What are the two objects of sampling?
17. N1 10, n1 2, N2 15, n2 3. 12 4, 22 5. Find 2 X X 2 when sampling is done without
replacement.
18. Differentiate simple and stratified random sampling.
19. Given N `7, n 2, 2 16 . If sampling is done without replacement then find E (S 2 ) .
20. Explain the properties of the sampling distribution of a mean.
2 1
21. Give 1 , n1 2 and 2 , n2 2, find var(pˆ 1 pˆ 2 ) .
3 2
22. Given n 9, X 4 and X 2.5, Find and .
23. If 1 10 and 2 8 then find X 1 X 2 .
24. If N 50, n 10, 4 and X If sampling is done with replacement.
25. Write down properties of sampling distribution of x1 x 2 .
26. Write down Relationship between Mean of sample variance and population variance in without
replacement.
27. Write down properties of sampling distribution of sample properties.
28. Write down two limitations of sampling Techniques.
29. Write down various methods of selecting the simple Random samples.
Long Questions
SECTION II
Q.1
A random sample of 36 cases is drawn from a negatively skewed probability distribution with a
mean of 2 and a standard deviation of 3. Find mean and standard error of the sampling distribution
of X .
Q.2
Draw all possible samples of two letters each without replacement from the letters of the word
“PUNJAB” Find the properties of the letter “A” in each sample. Make the sampling distribution of
sample proportion and verify that
(i) p
1 N n
(ii) 2p
n N 1
Q.3
Taking all possible samples of size 2 with replacement from the population 1, 3, 5, 7, (i) Show that
the population mean is equal to the mean of means of all samples and population variance is twice
the variance of sample means (ii) What would be the variance of the sample means if samples were
drawn without replacement.
Q.4
A population consists of five numbers 3, 6, 9, 12, 13. Take all possible samples of size 2 with
replacement from this population. Find the mean and standard deviation of the sampling
distribution of means. Also calculate the mean and standard deviation of the population and verify
the results.
Q.5
A population consists of four values 0, 3, 6, 9. Take all possible samples of size 3 without
2 N n
replacement. From the sampling distribution of X and verify that (i) X (ii) X 2
n N 1
Q.6
A population contains 2, 4, 6, values. Take all possible samples of size 2 with replacement from this
population. Construct sampling distribution of sample means and sample variances.
Q.7
Draw all possible samples of two letters each without replacement from the letters of the word
“KASHMIR”. Find proportion of vowel letters in each sample and make a sampling distributions of
proportion compute the mean and standard error of sampling distribution and compute the results.
Q.8
1 1
Given N1 3, n1 2, p1 , N 2 3, n2 2, p2 . Find the mean and standard error of difference
2 3
between two proportion if sampling is done with replacement.
Q.9
From a population 9 and 3.
1. Find all possible samples of sizes 3 with replacement and compute the mean of each sample.
2. Make the sampling distribution of sample means.
Q.10
Draw all possible sample of size 3 without replacement from population i.e., 2, 4, 5, 7, 10. Find the
sample proportion (p) ˆ of prime numbers in each sample.
pq N n
Verify that (i) p̂ P and p̂ 2
n N 1
Q.11
If the size of the simple random sample from an infinite population is 36 and the standard error of
the mean is 2, what must be the size of the sample become if the standard error is to be reduced to
1.2?
Q.12
The television picture tubes of manufacture A have a mean lifetime of 6.5 years and a standard
deviation of 9.0 years, while those of manufacture B have a mean lifetime of 6.0 years and a
standard deviation of 0.8 years. A random sample of size 36 tubes is selected from manufacture A
and its mean X 1 is calculated. Another random sample of size 49 tubes is selected from
manufacturer B and its mean X 2 is calculated. Find the mean and standard error of the sampling
distribution of the difference X 1 X 2 .
Q.13
A small, professional society has N 4500 numbers. The president has mailed n 400
questionnaires to a random sample of members asking whether they wish to affiliate with a large
group. Assuming that the properties of the entire membership favouring consolidation is 0.7,
find the mean and standard error of the sample proportion P .
Q.14
The percentage of families with a monthly income of Rs. 1,000 or more in city A and city B is 25%
and 20% respectively. If a random sample of 100 families is selected from each of these two cities
and the properties of families earning Rs. 1,000 or more in the two samples are compared, what is
the mean and standard error of P1 P2 , the difference between the sample proportions.
Q.15
Take all possible of 2 distinct values from the population 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Assuming the 20 possible
samples equally likely, construct the sampling distributions of sample means and sample variances
and find the mean of these distributions. Calculate the mean and variance of the population.
Discuss the results.
