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Department :MBA Subject Code : BA4101

Year/ Sem : I/ 01 Subject :Statistics For Management And Decision

Making

Regulation : 2021 Staff Incharge: Mr.T.Sundaresan

UNIT-1

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

PART –A

1. Define (a) probability (b) conditional probability

2. State Baye’s thermo for increase probability
3. Distinguish between qualitative and quantative variables in statistics
4. Name four descriptive statistics used
5. What are the common types of variables used in statistics
6. Define mean,median, and mode relationship
7. Brief about random variable
8. Two cards are drawn from a well shuffled pack of cards without replacement.
Find the prob that both are aces.
9. Find the probability that of getting a total of 5 atleast once in three tosses of a
pair of dice.
10. If a dice is thrown 120 times and getting 1or 5 is consider as success. Find the
mean and variance of no.of success
11.Find the probability of 4 defectives in a sample of 300 taken from a large lot. If
there are 2% defective in the lot.
12.Find the pdf of x follows uniform distribution is (-3,3) also find the mean and
variance.
13.Find the value of k if f(x)= k(1+x) , 2<x<5.
14.Find the value of k if x : 1 2 3 4

P(x) k/2 k/3 k k/5

15. Define normal distribution , binomial distribution,poisson distribution.
16. If x is normally distributed with mean 12 and SD= 4. Find the prob that
(a) x20 , (b) x20 (c)0 x12.
17. Define Axiom of probability.
18. DefineAddition law of probability.

PART-B&C

1. An expriement consist of throwing two six-sided dice and observing the no of 8

pots on the upper faces. Determine the probability that (i) the sum of the spots is
3, (ii) each dice show four or more spots (iii) the sum of spots is not 3 (iv)
neither a one nor a six appear on each dice (v) a pair of six appear (vi) the sum
of the spots is 7
2. An um contains 75 marbles 35 are blue and 25 of these blue marbles are
swirled. The rest of them are red, and 30 of the red ones are swirled. The
marbles that are not swirled are clear. what is the probability of drawing.
(i) A blue marble from the urn
(ii) A clear marble from the urn
(iii) A blue swirled marble
(iv) A red clear marble
(v) A swirled marble
3. An electronic assembly consist of 2 subsystem A and B. From previous testing
procedure, the following probabilities are assumed to be known.
4. A candidate is selected for interview of management trainees for 3 companies.
For the first company there are 12 candidates for the second candidate there are
15 candidate. Find the chances of his getting a job in at least one of the
companies.
5. The content of urns I,II,III are as follows
1 white, 2 black and 3 red ball
2 white, 1 black and 1 red ball
4 white 5 black and 3 red ball
6. One urn is choosen at random and two balls drawn. They happen to be white
and red. What is the probability that they come from urns I,II and III.Three
machines all turn out non ferrous castings machine A produces 1% defective
and machines B 2% and machines C 5%. Each machines produce 1/3 of the
output. An inspector examines a single casting, which he determines as non
defective. Estimates the probability of its having been produced by each
machine.
7. A tree farm estimates that when an experienced serviceman plants tree 90%
survive, but when a novice trees only 50% survive. If a tree previously planted
 tails to survive, find the probability that novice planted it, given that novices
ordinarily planted 2/3 of the tree.
8. There are two boxes B1 and B2. B1 contains two red balls and one green ball.
B2 contains one red ball and two green balls.
(i) A ball is drawn from one of the boxes randomly. It is found to be
rd. What is the probability that it is from B1?
(ii) Two balls are drawn randomly from one of the boxes without
replacement. One is red and the other is green. What is the prob
that they came from B1?
(iii) A ball drawn from one of the boxes is green. What is the
probability that it came from B2.
9. In the two up coming basket ball games (involving (A and B) and (A and C) the
prob that A will defeat B is 0.63 and the prob that will A will defeat C 0.55 .
the probability that A will defeat both opponents is 0. 3465.
(i) What is the prob that A will defeat C given that the defeat B
(ii) What is the prob that A will win atleast one of the games
(iii) What is the prob of A winning both games?
(iv) Are the outcomes of the green independent? Explain and
sustainable your answer
10. The prob of appoint of one of the 4 persons namely A,B,C and D in a company
are 1/5 ,1/4,2/7 and 3/4 resply. The prob that the company earns profit above
rs 20000 per month due to the their appointment is 1/3, 2/3, 1/5 and 2/5 resply
What is the prob that the company earns about rs 20000 per month?
11. In a bolt factory machines A,B,C manufacture resply. 25%,35% and 40% of the
total of their output 5,4,2 percent are defective bolts. If A bolt is drawn at
random from the product and is founded to be defective. What are the
probabilities that is manufactured by machines A,B and C?
12.Students ages in regular daytime MBA program and the evening program of
central university and described by these two sample

Regular MBA 23 29 27 22 24 21 25 26 27 24
Evening MBA 27 34 30 29 28 30 34 35 28 29
If a homogenous of the class is a positive factor in learning use a measure of
relative variability of suggest while of the two group is better.
13.An urn contains 2w and 4b balls. Another urn B contains 5w and 7b balls. A
ball is transferred from urn A to urn B. then a ball is drawn from urn B. Find the
probability that it will be white.
14.Box I contains 1 white and 999 red ball. Box 2 contains 1 red ball and 999 white
balls. A ball is picked from a randomly selected box. If the ball is red, what is
the prob that it come from box I?
 15.In a test on 2000 electric bulbs it was found that bulbs of a particular make was
normally distributed with an average life of 2040 hours and standard deviation
of 60 hours. Estimates the number of bulbs likely to burn for (i) move than 2150
hours. (ii) less than1950 hours (iii) more 1920 hours but less than 2100 hours.
16.Assume that the heights of 3000male student at an institution are normally
distributed with a mean of 173 cm and a SD of 8cm. Find the prob that for 25
students (i) between the mean 169.8 and 173.8 cm’s and less than 168.6 cm’s
17. The income group of 10000 persons well found to be normally distributed with
mean Rs1750.p.m and SD of Rs 50. Show that of this group 95% had income
exceeding Rs 1833. What was the lowest income among the richest 100?
18.Out of 2000 families with 4 children each how many would you expect to have
(i) at least 1 boy (ii) 2 boys (iii) 2 girls (iv) no girls?
19.A blade manufactured manufactures and supplier blade in packets of 10. There
is a 0.2% probability for any blade to be defective. Find approximately the no of
packets two defectively blades in a consignment of 20000 packets.
20.On an average 6 people per hour use an electronic teller machine during the
prime shopping hours in a departmental store what is the probability that
(i) Exactly six people will use the machine during a randomly selected hour
(ii) Fewer than five people will use the machine during a randomly selected
hour
(iii) No one will use the facility in a 10 minute interval
(iv) No one will use the facility in a 5 minutes interval

UNIT-2

SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION AND ESTIMATION

Part -A

1. In a local university 10% of the students live in the dormitoses. A random sample
of 100 students is selected for a particular study. What is the prob that the sample
proportion is between 0.172 and 0.178?
2. A random sample of 87 airline pilots had an average yearly income of $99400
with a SD of $12000. Develop a 95% confidence interval for the average yearly
income of all pilots.
3. Define: sampling distribution, standard error
4. Distinguish between one tail – two tail test.
5. Give the meaning of random sampling
 6. What are the conditions for central limit theorem
7. Define a good estimator
8. Define parameter and statistic
9. Define point estimator interval estimator
10.State central limit theorem
11.What are the properties of an estimator
12.For a test market find the sample size needed to estimate that true proportion of
consumers satisfied with a certain new product within ± 0.04 at 90% confidence
level.
13.
Given a population with a SD of 8.6 what sample size is needed to estimate the mean o

14.Why are sample taken?

Part –B&C
1. Find the prob that in 120 tosses of a fair coin (i) between 40% and 60% will be
heads (ii) 5/8 or more will be head
2. A sample of five measurement of the diameters of a sphere were recorded by a
scientist as 6.33 , 6.37, 6.36, 6.32 and 6.37 cm. Determine unbiased and efficient
estimates of (1) the true mean (2) the true variance. Assume that the measured
diameters is normally distributed.
3. In a normally distributed population average income per household is Rs 20000
with a SD of Rs 1600. Find the probability that the sample mean will be between
Rs 19600 and Rs 20200 in a survey of a random sample of 100 households
4. A university wants to determine the percentage of students who would accept
proposed fees for improving facilities. The university wants to be 90% confident
that the percentage within 2% of the true value. Find the sample size to achieve the
accuracy regardless of the true percentage assuming the percentage of students
accepting the increase in tuition fees to be 0.5
5. A movie maker sampled 55 fans who received his master piece movie and asked
them whether they had planned to see it again only 10 of them believed that the
movie was worthy of second look. Find the standard error of the population of fans
who will view the film a second time. Constant a 90% confidence interval for the
population.
6. The manager of a shop selling beverages wants to estimate the actual amount of
beverages in one litre bottles from a nationally known manufacturers
specifications. The SD of the volume of the beverage is 0.02 litre. The average
amount of beverage per 1 litre bottle is found to be 0.995 litre on checking 50
bottles. Set up 99% confidence interval ,estimates of the true population average
amount of beverage in a 1 litre bottle check. Whether the manufacturer is gentle
in filling the beverage.
7. Measurements of the diameters of a random sample of 200 balls bearing showed a
mean of 20.9mm and a standard deviation of 1.07 cm. Find (i) 95% and (ii) 99%
confident limits for the mean diameter of all the bearings.
8. The standard deviation of the lifetimes of a sample of 200 electric light bulb was
computed to be 100 hours. Find 95% confidence limits for the standard deviation
of all such bulbs. Also low average a sample of above bulbs is for 99.73%
confidence that the population standard deviation will not differs from the sample
standard deviation by more than 5%
9. From a population of 540 , a sample of 60 individual is taken. From the sample the
mean is found to 6.2 and the SD 1.368
(A)Find the estimated standard error of the mean
(B) Construct a 98% confidence interval level for the mean.

10.In a automotive safely test conducted by north Carolina highway safety research
centre the average tyre pressure in a sample of 62 tyres was found to be 24 pounds
per square inch and the standard deviation was 2.1 pounds per square inch
(a) What is the estimated population S.D for this population
(b) Calculate the estimated SE of the mean
(c) Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean
11.A random sample of 121 accounts at a bank showed an average daily balance of
$280. The standard deviation of the population is known to be $66
1. Is it necessary to know anything about the shape of the distribution of the
account balances in order to make an interval estimate of the mean of all
the accounts balance ? explain
2. Find the standard error the mean
3. Give a point estimate of the population mean
4. Construct a 80% confidence interval estimate for the mean
5. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean
12. In a large university 20% of the students are business majors a random sample of
100 students is selected and their majors are recorded
(i) Compute the SE of the proportion
(ii) What is the prob that the sample consists at least 12 business majors?
(iii) What is the prob that the sample contains less than 15 business major?
(iv) What is the prob that the sample contains b/w 12 and 14 business major?
13.A sample of 144 cans of coffee showed an average weight of 16 ounces the SD of
the population is known to be 1.4 ounces.
(i) Construct a 68.26% confidence interval for the mean of the population
(ii) Construct a 97% confidence interval for the mean of the population
(iii) Discuss why the answers in parts A and B are different
 14.From a population of 540 , a sample of 60 individuals is taken from the sample,
the mean is found to be 6.2 and the SD 1.386 (a) find the estimates SE of the mean.
(b) construct a 98% confident interval for the mean
15.A quality controller employed by a consumer testing organization that at 95%
confidence he has determined that the true average content of the uncola soft
drinks is between 11.7 to 12.3 ounces. He further reports that his sample revealed
an average content of 12 ounces but he forgot to report the size of the sample he
had selected. Assuming the SD of the population is 1.28 determine the size of the
sample.

UNIT- 3
TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS
PART A
1. Differentiate null and alternate hypothesis
2. Define level of significance
3. Define degree of freedom
4. Define type I and type II error.
5. Define critical region and critical value.
6. What are the steps involved in large sample
7. Define student t-test and its application
8. Define Fischer’s test and its uses
9. Define ≁ ²- test , and its properties
10. Define ANOVA
11. Define design of experiment
12. If L.S.D of 2×2 is not possible? Why?
13. Classified into one -way , two-way ANOVA
14. Define standard Error
15. Define small sample test.
16. Define interval estimation.
17. Define Point estimation.
18. Define CI.
19. Define errors in sampling and critical region.
20. Write the application of ‘F’ test.
21. Define a ‘F’ variate.
22. A random sample of 25 cups from a certain coffee dispensing machine yields a
mean x =6.9 occurs per cup. Use α =0.05 level of significance to test, on the
average, the machine dispense μ=7.0 ounces against the null hypothesis that, on the
average, the machine dispenses μ<7.0 ounces. Assume that the distribution of ounces per
cup is normal, and that the variance is the known quantity σ 2=0.01 ounces.
23. In a large city A, 20 percent of a random sample of 900 school boys had a slight physical
Defect. In another large city B, 18.5 percent of a random sample of 1600 school boys had
some Defect. Is the difference between the proportions significant?
24. A sample of size 13 gave an estimated population variance of 3.0 while another sample
of size gave an estimate of 2.5. Could both samples be from populations with the same
variance?
25. write down the corresponding χ2value for a 2 x 2 contingency table,
 26. What is the aim of the design of experiments?
27. Write the basic assumptions in analysis of variance.
28. When do you apply analysis of variance technique?
29. Define Randomization.
30. Define Replication.
31. Define RBD.
32. What is meant by tolerance limits?
33. What are the advantages of a completely randomized design.
34. What are the advantages of a Latin square design?
35. What are the advantages of a Completely Randomized Experimental Design?
36. What is the purpose of blocking in a randomized block design?
37. What are the Basic principles of experimental design?
38. Why a 2 x 2 Latin square is not possible? Explain.
39. Write the advantages of the Latin square design over the other design.
40. Write any two differences between RBD and LSD.
41. What is ANOVA?
42. Write down the format the ANOVA table for one factors of classification.
43. Write down the format the ANOVA table for two factors of classification.
44. Write down the ANOVA table for Latin square.
45. Define 22-factorial design.
PART B&C

1. (a) A sample of 900 members has a mean 3.4 c.m and standard deviation 2.61 c.m. Is the

sample from a large population of mean 3.25 c.ms and standard deviation of

2.61c.ms?(Test at 5% L.O.S) (8)

(b) Before an increase in excise duty on tea, 800 persons out of a sample of 1000 persons

were found to be tea drinkers. After an increase in duty, 800 people were tea drinkers in a

sample of 1200 people. Using standard error of proportion, State whether there is a

significant decrease in the consumption of tea after the increase in excise duty. (8)

2. (a) A manufacturer claimed that atleast 95% of the equipment which he supplied to a factory

conformed to specifications. An examination of a sample of 200 pieces of equipment

revealed that 18 were faulty. Test his claim at 5% level of significance. (8)

(b) A machine produces 16 imperfect articles in a sample of 500. After machine is overhauled,

it produces 3 imperfect articles in a batch of 100. Has the machine been improved? (8)

3. (a) In a big city 325 men out of 600 men were found to be smokers. Does this information

support the conclusion that the majority of men in this city are smokers? (8)

(b) Examine whether the difference in the variability in yields is significant at 5% L.O.S, for the
 followingSet of 40 Plots Set of 60 Plots

Mean yield per Plot 125 1243

8

S.D. per Plot 34 28

4. (a) The means of 2 large samples 1000 and 2000 members are 67.5 inches and 68.0 inches

respectively. Can the samples be regarded as drawn from the same population of

standard deviation 2.5 inches? (8)

(b) Two independent samples of sizes 8 and 7 contained the following values.

Sample I : 19 17 15 21 16 18 16 14

Sample II : 15 14 15 19 15 18 16

Test if the two populations have the same mean. (8)

5. (a) Samples of two types of electric bulbs were tested for length of life and following data were

obtained.

Type I Type II
Sample Size 8 7
Sample Mean 1234hrs 1036hrs
Sample S.D 36hrs 40hrs

Is the difference in the means sufficient to warrant that type I is superior to type II

regarding the length of life? (8)

(b) Two independent samples of 8 and 7 items respectively had the following values

Of the variable (weight in kgs.)

Sample I : 9 11 13 11 15 9 12 14

Sample II: 10 12 10 14 9 8 10

Use 0.05 level of significance to test whether it is reasonable to assume that the variances of the two
population’s sample are equal. (8)

6. (a) A group of 10 rats fed on diet A and another group of 8 rats fed on diet B, recorded

the following increase the following increase in weight.(gms)

Diet A 5 6 8 1 12 4 3 9 6 10
 Diet B 2 3 6 8 10 1 2 8 - -

Does it show superiority of diet A over diet B ? (Use F-test) (8)

(b) The marks obtained by a group of 9 regular course students and another group of 11 parttime

course students in a test are given below :

Regula 5 6
56 62 63 60 51 67 58
r 4 9
Part- 7 6 6
62 71 60 56 75 72 68 66
time 0 2 4

Examine whether the marks obtained by regular students and part-time students differ

significantly at 5% and 1% levels of significance. (8)

7. (a) Two independent samples are chosen from two schools A&B a common test is given in a

subject .The scores of the students as follows

School 28 3 32 3 33 2 34
A 0 3 9
School B 29 3 30 2 27 2
0 4 9

Test whether school A is scores more than that school B at 5% level. (8)

(b) The average income of a person was Rs. 210 with S.D of Rs. 10 in a sample 100 people

of a city. For another sample of 150 persons the average income was Rs. 220 with S.D

of Rs. 12. Test whether there is any significant difference between the average income

of the localities? (8)

8. (a) Two random samples gave the following results:

Samp Samp Sample Sum of squares of

le le deviation
mean
Size from the mean

1 10 15 90
2 12 14 108
 Test whether the samples have come from the same normal population.(8)

(b) Records taken of the number of male and female births in 800 families having four children

are as follows :

Number of male births : 0 1 2 3 4

Number of female births : 4 3 2 1 0

Number of Families : 32 178 290 236 64

Test whether the data are consistent with the hypothesis that the binomial law holds and

that the chance of a male birth is equal to that of female birth, namely p = ½ = q. (8)

9. (a) Random samples of 400 men and 600 women were asked whether they would like to have a

flyover near their residence. 200 men and 325 women were in favour of the proposal. Test

the hypothesis that proportions of men and women infavour of the proposal, are same against

that they are not, at 5%.(8)

(b) In an investigation into the health and nutrition of two groups of children of

different Social status, the following results are got.

Poor Rich Total

Below normal 130 20 150
Above normal 24 96 120
Normal 102 108 120
Total 256 224 480

Discuss the relation between the health and their social status.

10. (a) An automobile company gives you the following information about age groups and the

liking for particular model of car which it plans to introduce. On the basis of this data can

it be concluded that the model aooeal is independent of the age group. (8)
60 and
Persons who Below 20 20-39 40-59
above
Liked the car 140 80 40 20
60 30
Disliked the
50 80
car
 (b) The following data gives the number of aircraft accidents that occurred during the various

days of a week. Find whether the accidents are uniformly distributed over the week. (8)

Days Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat

No. of accidents 14 16 8 12 11 9 14

11. (a) A dice is thrown 400 times and a throw of 3 or 4 is observed 150 times. Test the

hypothesis that the dice is fair. (8)

(b) Theory predicts that the proportion of beans in four groups A,B,C,D should be 9:3:3:1.

In an experiment among 1600 beans, the numbers in the four groups were 882,313,

287, and 118. Does the experiment support the theory? (8)

12. (a) Test of the fidelity and selectivity of 190 radio receivers produced the results shown in

the following table

Selectivit Fidelity
y Low Average High

Low 6 12 32

Average 33 61 18

High 13 15 0

Use the 0.01 level of significance to test whether there is a relationship between fidelity

and selectivity. (8)

(b) The following data are collected on two characters

Attributes Smokers Non-Smokers
Literates 83 57
Illiterates 45 68

Based on this can you say that there is no relation between smoking and literacy. (8)

1. A completely randomized design experiment with 10 plots and 3 treatments gave the

following results:
 Plot No: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Treatment A B C A C C A B A B
Yield 5 4 3 7 5 1 3 4 1 7

Analyse the results for treatment effects. (16)

2. (a) Compare and contrast the LSD with the RBD. (8)
(b)The following are the number of mistakes made in 5 successive days by 4 technicians
working for a photographic laboratory test at a level of significance 0.01.Teat whether the
difference among the four sample means can be attributed to chance. (8)
T I 6 1 10 8 11
e 4
c II 14 9 12 10 14
h
n III 10 1 7 15 11
i 2
c IV 9 1 8 10 11
i 2
a
n

3. The following table shows the lives in hours of four brands of electric lamps.

Brand

A : 1610, 1610, 1650, 1680, 1700, 1720, 1800

B : 1580, 1640, 1640, 1700, 1750

C : 1460, 1550, 1600, 1620, 1640, 1660, 1740, 1820

D : 1510, 1520, 1530, 1570, 1600, 1680

Perform an analysis of variance and test the homogeneity of the mean lives of the four

brands of lamps. (16)

4. In order to determine whether there is significant difference in the durability of 3 makes of

computers, samples of size 5 are selected from each make and the frequency of repair during

the first year of purchase is observed. The results are as follows :

A B C
5 8 7
6 10 3
8 11 5
9 12 4
7 4 1
 Makes In view of the above data, what conclusions can you draw? (16)

5. Three varieties of a crop are tested in a randomized block design with four replications, the

layout being as given below: The yields are given in kilograms.

C48 A51 B52 A49

A47 B49 C52 C51

B49 C53 A49 B50

Analyse for significance. (16)

6. The following data represent the number of units production per day turned out by different

workers using 4 different types of machines.

Machine type
A B C D
1 44 38 47 36
2 46 40 52 43
3 34 36 44 32
4 43 38 46 33
5 38 42 3 49
9

Test whether the five men differ with respect to mean productivity and test whether the mean

productivity is the same for the four different machine types.(16)

7. Analyse the following RBD and find your conclusion.

TREATEMENT T1 T2 T3 T4
S
B1 12 14 20 22

BLO B2 17 27 19 15
CKS B3 15 14 17 12
B4 18 16 22 12
B5 19 15 20 14
8. The sales of 4 salesmen in 3 seasons are tabulated here. Carry out an analysis of variance. (16)
SALESMEN
A B C D

Summer 36 36 21 35
SEAS
Winter 28 29 31 32
ONS
Monsoon 26 28 29 29

9. A farmer wishes to test the effect of 4 fertilizers A, B, C, D on the yield of wheat.

 The fertilizers are used in a LSD and the result are tabulated here. Perform
an analysis of variance. (16)
A 18 C 21 D 25 B11
D 22 B12 A 15 C 19
B15 A 20 C 23 D 24
C 22 D 21 B10 A 17

UNIT-4

NON PARAMETRIC METHODS

PART A

1. Write any two uses of ≁²- distribution

2. Define non parametric method
3. Distinguish b/w parametric and non parametric type
4. What is sign test
5. State the purpose of Mann- Whitney test
6. Define rank sum test
7. Define H-test
8. Define run test
9. Two advantages of non parametric test
10.Write the various type of non parametric test
11.K-s statistics , test define
12.Mention the rank sum test whe
(a)only two population are involved
(b)more than two population are involved

13.how do you find the degrees of freedom in case of chi-square test

PART-B&C

1. A brand manager is concerned about its shares across the country. Results of survey
are as follows

North south East west total

Consumers 40 35 45 50 190
who purchase
the brand
consumer who 60 45 55 50 210
do not
purchase the
brand
Total 100 100 100 100 400

Calculate the sample chi-square value and also state the null hypothesis and alternate
hypothesis. Further check at alpha =0.05 whether the brand share is uniform across the four
region.

2. State the merits of spearmen’s rank correlation

3. A mail order gift company has the following data on sales in relation to made of
payment. Test the hypothesis that there is no difference in sales revenue due to mode
of payment by KW test at 0.05 level.
DD 78 64 75 45 82 69 60
CHEQUE 110 70 53 51 61 68
CASH 90 68 70 54 74 65 59

4. A plant supervisor ranked a sample of eight workers on the number of overtime hours
and length of service. Find the rank correlation between the two measures at 0.01 level
Overtime hours: 5 8 2 4 3 7 1 6
Year o service : 1 6 5 2 7 8 4 3
5. In an investigation into the health and nutrition of two groups of children of different
social status, the following results are got
Social poor rich total
Status health

Below normal 130 20 150

Above normal 24 96 120

Normal 102 108 120

Total 256 224 480

Discuss the relation between the health and their social status.

6. In a study of a sedimentary rocks the following diameters (in millimetres) were

obtained for sample of 29 grains from two kinds of sand.
 Sand I 0.63, 0.17, 0.35, 0.49, 0.18, 0.43, 0.12, 0.20, 0.49, 1.36, 0.51, 0.45, 0.84,
0.32, 0.40
Sand II 1.13, 0.54, 0.96, 0.26, 0.39, 0.88, 0.92, 0.53, 0.92, 0.53, 1.01, 0.48, 0.89,
1.07, 1.11, 0.58
Use Mann – Whitney u test to test the hypothesis.
7. Suppose that an designed to compare three preventive methods against corrosion ,
fielded the following maximum depths of pits(in thousands of an inch) in pieces of
wire subjected to the respective treatments.
Method A 77 54 67 74 71 69
Method B 60 41 59 65 62 64 52
Method C 49 52 69 47 56
Use kruskal Wallis H test to test neither the three preventive methods against
corrosion are equally effective or not.
8. Suppose it is desired to check whether pin holes in electrolytic tin plate are distributed
uniformly across a plated coil on the basis of the following distances (in inches) of 10
pin holes from one edge of a long strip of tin plate 320 inches wide. 4.8, 14.8, 28.2,
23.1, 4.4, 28.7, 19.5, 2.4, 2.50, 6.2. use kolmogorov seminar test to test the null
hypothesis.
9. A large organization is checking whether 4 relationship exists between the community
time of its employees and the level of stress related problem. A survey of 11b
assembly line operators revealed the following
Level of stress
Community High Moderate Low Total
time
Under 15 mins 9 5 18 32

15-45 mins 17 8 28 53

Over 45 mins 18 6 7 31

Total 44 19 53 116

10.The following are the final examinations score of three groups of students who were
taught computer science by three different methods
First 94 88 91 74 87 97 -
method
Second 85 82 79 84 61 72 90
method
Third 89 67 72 76 69 - -
method
Verify whether the three methods are equally effective at 0.05 level of significance.
11.At the 0.05 level of significance we conclude that the following data has come from
Poisson distribution within λ= 3
 No. Of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 or more
arrival/da
y
No. Of. 6 18 30 24 11 2 9
days
12.Below in the table of frequency along with the frequency to be observed under a
normal distribution
Test score 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100
Observed
30 100 440 500 130
frequency
Expected
40 170 500 390 100
frequency
(a) Calculate K-S statistics
(b) Can be conclude does in fact follow a normal distribution use 0.10 level of
significance
13.The following table shows the weights of the sample of 12 fathers and their oldest
adult sons. Find the coefficient of rank correlation
Weight 63 65 67 64 62 68 70 66 67 68 69 71
of
father(kg
)
Weight 66 68 68 65 66 69 68 65 67 71 68 70
of son
(kg)
14.The following fig. Released by federal trade commission show milligrams of tax
nicotine content of 10 brand cigratte
15.

Cigarette brands Tax content Nicotine content

Viceroy 14 0.9
Marlboro 17 1.1
Chester field 28 1.6
Kool 17 1.3
Kent 16 1.0
Rabgh 13 0.8
Old gold 24 1.5
Philip morris 25 1.4
Rasis 18 1.2
players 31 2.0
 16.A consumer panel includes 14 individual. It is asked to rate two brands of coco cola
according to a point evaluation system based on several criteria. The table given below
reports the points assigned. Test the null hypothesis that there is no difference in the
level of
panel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 rating for
member the two
Brand I 20 24 28 24 20 29 19 27 20 30 18 28 26 24 brands of
cola at 5%
Brand II 16 26 18 17 20 21 23 22 23 20 18 21 17 26
level of
significance
using the
sign test. An automatic engineer is investigating 2 different types of metering
devices for an electronic fuel injection system to determine whether they differ in
their fuel mileage performance. The system is installed on 12 different cars and a test
is run with each metering device on each car. The observed fuel mileage performance
data are given in the following tables. Use the sign test to determine whether the
median fuel. Mileage performance is the same for both devices using 5% level if
significance.
car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Device
17.6 19.4 19.5 17.1 15.3 15.9 16.3 18.14 17.3 19.1 17.8 18.2
I
Device
16.8 20 18.2 16.4 16 15.4 16.5 18 16.4 20.1 16.7 17.9
II
17.An technician is asked to analyse the result of 22 items made in a preparation run.
Each item has been measured and compared to engineering specification. The order of
acceptance a and rejections r is
Determine whether it is a random sample or not use α= 0.05

UNIT-5

CORRELATION REGRESSION INDEX NUMBER AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

PART-A

1. How will you test the accuracy of a regression equations

2. Why are index number used
3. When is regression used?
4. What is an index umber
5. Define correlation and its interpreter type
6. Distinguish correlation and regression
7. What do you mean by error variation
8. State the major applications of trend analysis
9. Find the mean value of the variable X and Y from the following regression line
2y-x=50 3y-2x =10
10.Briefly explain fisher’s ideal index
11.What is the time series? Give two examples
12.What is a cost of living number index ?
13.Distinguish between trend seasonal variations and cyclical fluctuations in a time series
PART-B&C
14.The following table presents the results of a survey of randomly selected families
Annual 8 12 9 24 13 37 10 16
income(000 rs)
Present 36 25 33 15 28 19 20 22
allocation for
investment
Find Karl Pearson’s correlation and spearman’s rank correlation methods for the above
data.
15. Explain various methods of trend analysis for financial time series data.
16.An electronic and appliances store sells three different brands of Dr D players. The
three brands sold by the store are brand A ,brand B and brand C. The unit prices for
the year 2000 and 2010 with the volume of sales (unit sales) for 2010 are given below.
Unit prices $ Unit sold
DVD player 2000(po) 2010(p1) 2000
Brand A 700 900 200
Brand B 500 600 300
Brand C 500 420 500

(a)Compute an un weighted aggregate price for DVD players with 200 as the base period

(b) compute a weighted aggregate price index ( lubricate’s index) for 2010 with 2000 as
the base period.

17. Campus store has been selling the believe it or not. Wonders of statistics study guide
for 12 semesters and would like to estimate the relationship between sales and
 number of selection of elementary statistics taught in each semester. The following
data have been collection
Sales 33 38 24 61 52 45 65 82 29 63 50 79
(unit)
No of 3 7 6 6 19 12 12 13 12 13 14 15
sections
(i) develop the estimating equation that the best fits the data
(ii) calculate the sample coefficient of determination and the sample coefficient
correlation.
18. This number of faculty owned person computer at the university of ohm increased
dramatically between 1993 and 1995
Year 1993 1991 199 1993 1994 1995
2
Number of 50 110 550 1020 1950 3710
pcs
(i) Develop a linear estimating equation that best describes these data
(ii) Develop a second degree estimating equation that best describes these data.
(iii) Estimate the number of pc’s thatwill be in use at the university in 1999 using
both equations
(iv) If there are 8000 faculty members at the university, which equation is the better
predictor? Why?
19. Promotional expenses and sales for an equipment manufacturer are as follows.
Calculate the correlation coefficient and comment.
Promotional 7 10 9 4 11 5 3
expenses in
lakhs
Sales in unit 12 14 13 5 15 7 4
20.A gas company has supplied 18,20,21,25 and 26 billion cubic feet gas respectively to
the years 2004 to 2008
(i) Find the estimating equation that best describe these data.
(ii) Calculate the percentage of trend
(iii) Calculate the relative cyclical residuals
(iv) Find the year in which the fluctuation in maximum
21.Data on rainfall and crop production for the past seven years are as follows
Rainfall in 20 22 24 26 28 30 32
inches
Crop 30 35 40 50 60 60 55
production
in or mds
Find the correlation coefficient and comment on the relationship
22.The percentage of students getting dream placements in campus selection in a loading
technical institution during the past five years are as follows.
Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
percentage 7.3 8.7 10.2 7.6 7.4
 Find the linear equation that describes the data. Also calculate the percent of trend
and relative cyclical residual. check Whether the year of largest fluctuation is same by
both the methods.
23.Obtain two regression lines
X 45 48 50 55 65 70 75 72 80 85
Y 25 30 35 30 40 50 45 55 60 65
24.Calculate seasonal index from the following data.
Year sales in 100 tones

I quarter II quarter III quarter IV quarter

2005 30 22 15 45
2006 32 24 18 40
2007 35 29 20 37
2008 45 32 14 30
2009 50 30 12 35
25. A coffee shop owner believes that the sales of coffee at coffee shop depend the
weather. He has taken a sample of 6 days. The results of the sample are given below
Cups of 350 200 210 100 60 40
coffee
temperature 50 60 70 80 90 100
(i) Which variable is the dependent variable?
(ii) Compute the least square estimated line
(iii) Compute the correlation coefficient between temperature and the sales of coffee
(iv) Predict sales of a 90 degree day
26.The table below given the prices of four items A,B,C and D sold at a stove in 2000 and
2006

27.Calculate the coefficient of rank correlation from the following table

X: 48 34 40 12 16 16 66 25 16 57
Y: 15 15 24 8 13 6 20 9 9 15

Item Price 2000 Price 2006 Quantity 2000 Quantity 2006

A 40 10 1000 800
B 55 25 1900 5000
C 95 40 600 3000
D 250 90 50 200
(i) Using 2000 as the base year calculate the price relative index for the four items
(ii) Calculate an un weighted aggregate price index for these items
(iii) Find the laspeyers weighted aggregate index for these items.
 (iv) Find the pasches index for these items
(v) Construct a weighted aggregate quantity index using 2000 as the base year price
as the weight
28.The following data represent the no of flash drives sold per day at a local computer
shop and their prices.
Price(x)$ 34 36 32 35 30 38 40
Units
3 4 6 5 9 2 1
sold (y)
(i) Develop a least square regression line and explain that the slope of the line
indicates
(ii) Compute the coefficient of determination and comment on the strength of
relationship b/w x and y
(iii) Compute the sample correlation coefficient between the price and the number of
flash drives sold use α=0.01 to test the relationship between X and Y.