Nepathya College

Final Internal Exam

2072
Bachelor Level/First Semester
Stat.108
Statistics I

Full Marks: 60
Pass Marks: 24
Time: 3 Hours

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as for as practicable.
All notations have the usual meanings.
Group A
Attempt two questions

Group B
(2x10= 20)

1. Suppose you are given following information with n=5.

^
Multiple regression model Y

X 1 0.58 X 2
= 7.34+0.07

( Y^ Y )2 = 2.46
X 1 =50 and X 2=4

a)

Estimate the value of Y when

b)
c)
d)
e)

Calculate standard error of the estimate and interpret the result.

Calculate the coefficient of multiple determination and interpret it.
Test the significance of regression coefficients of the regression model
Test overall significance of regression model.

2. The following table shows sample retail price of three brands of pencils. Use the KruskalWallis test to determine if there is any difference between the retails prices of the brands
throughout the country. Use 0.05 level of significance.
Brand A
25
20
22
23
15
Brand B
19
23
22
28
21
Brand C
27
22
29
28
25
3. Discuss Friedmans two-way analysis of variance. An investigator wants to study the score of
three groups under five conditions, each group contains five matched subjects one being
assigned to each of the five conditions. Let the scores obtained are given in the following
table.
Group
Conditions
I
II
III
IV
V
A
9
8
4
1
7
B
6
7
5
2
8
C
9
7
4
2
6

( 85=40)

4.What do you mean by multiple correlation coefficient? If

=0.35 find the value of

2
Total variation = (Y Y ) =20
Explained variation =

Attempt all questions:

r 12 =0.6, r 13 =0.4,and

r 23

r 12.3 and R2.13 .

5.What are the advantages and disadvantages of non parametric test.

6.Following is a sequence of boys (B) and girls (G) in a line to pay bill
B G G B B B G B G G B BG B
Test whether the boys and girls occur in random order. Use = 0.01
7. Write Cobb Douglas production function with interpretation of regression coefficients.
8.Following are the gain in weights (in Kg) of 10 pairs of buffaloes, when half of the buffaloes
fed on diet A and other half fed on diet B during a certain period:
Diet
32 30 14
24
14
32
24
30
31
35
A
Diet
34 22 10
47
31
40
30
32
34
18
B
Test whether or not the two diets A and B differ significantly using sign test.
9. There is a general belief that high income families send their children to public schools and low
income families often send their children to government schools. To verify this 200 families
were selected at random in a city and the following results were obtained.
Public School
Govt.
total
Test whether income and
School
Low
30
70
100
type of schooling are
High
50
50
100
independent.
Total
80
120
200
10. Write short note on any

Set up the null hypothesis and carry out ANOVA.

one of the following.
a)

Mann- Whitny U test

b) Assumption of multiple regression