ENTRANCE EXAMINATION - 2016 1

M.Sc. Statistics

Hall Ticket Number

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Time : 2 hours Part A : 25 marks
Max. Marks. 100 Part B : 75 marks

Instructions

1. Write your Hall Ticket Number on the OMR Answer Sheet given to you. Also write the Hall Ticket Number
in the space provided above.

2. Answers are to be marked on the OMR answer sheet.

3. Please read the instructions carefully before marking your answers on the OMR answer sheet.

4. Hand over the OMR answer sheet after the examination.

5. There are plain sheets in the booklet for rough work, no additional sheets will be provided.

-. 6. Calculators are not allowed.

7. There are a total of 50 questions in Part A and Part B together.

8. Each question in Part - A has only one correct option and there is negative marking o~ 0.33.

9. There is no negative marking in Part - B. Some questions have more than one correct option.
All the correct options have to be marked in the OMR answer sheet, otherwise zero marks will
be credited.

10. The appropriate answer(s) should be coloured with either a blue or a black ball point or a sketch pen. DO
NOT USE A PENCIL.

11. THE MAXIMUM MARKS FOR THIS EXAMINATION IS 100 AND THERE WILL BE NO
INTERVIEW.

12. Given below are the meanings of some symbols that may have appeared in the question paper:
R-The set of all real numbers,E(X)-Expected value of the random variable X,
V(X)-Variance 0 the random variable X, Cov.(X, Y)-Covariance of the random variables X and Y, iid-
independent and identically distributed, pdf-probability density function, B(n,p) and N(J-t, (12) denote respec-
tively,the Binomial and the Normal distributions with the said parameters.Rank(A) and det(B) mean rank and
determinant of the matrices A and B respectively.
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Part-A

• Find the correct answer and mark it on the OMR sheet. Each correct answer gets 1
. (one) mark and wrong answer gets -0.33 marks.

1. A and B are two independent events whose probabilities are strictly greater than zero and strictly less
than one. Identify the wrong statement.
(a) A and BC are independent. (b)AC and BC are independent.
(c) P(AIB) = P(AIBC). (d) For any event C with 0 < P(C) < 1, p(AnBIC) = P(AIC)P(BIC).

2. The number of different arrangements of 10 balls of which m > 0 are red and the rest are blue is
maximum for m equal to
(a) 6. (b) 5. (c) 4. (d) 3.

3. The marks of a class of 100 students are positively skewed, the average marks are 62%, so,

(a) more than half of the students in this class have got less than 62% marks.

(b) half of the students in this class have got more than 62% marks.

(c) more than 62 students have got more than 70% marks.

(d) exactly 50 students have got more than 62% marks.

4. The mean and median incomes of 100 households in a locality were both equal to Rs.50, 000, 6 households
whose incomes were Rs.28000, 55000, 30000, 52000, 26000, 54000 left the locality and in their places 6
new households joined the locality and their incomes are Rs30000, 40000, 28000, 60000, 62000,72000,
with these changes

(a) there is no change in either the mean income or the median income.

(b) the mean and median incomes of the locality have increased but both are still equal.

( c) the median income is unchanged, but the mean income of the locality has increased.

(d) the median income has reduced, but the mean income of the locality has increased.

5. Two coins with probabilities of heads PI and P2 are tossed simultaneously, and if Pr(both coins show
up tails) = Pr(both coins show up heads), then PI
(a) 1. (b) 3/4. (c) 1/2.
+ P2 is equal to
(d) 1/4.
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6. If X rv B(30, 0.5), then
(a)Pr(X> 15) < 0.5. (b)Pr(X> 15) > 0.5. (c)Pr(X> 15) = 0.5. (d)Pr(X < 15) = 0.5.
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7. Given in the table is the frequency distribution of a random variable say, X

X 2 4 6 8 Total
, the Mode is
Frequency m-1 m-1 2m+3 2m+1 50

(a) not unique. (b) 19. , (c) 2 or 4. (d) 6.

8. Which of the following describes a Poisson random variable correctly?

(a) The number of red balls in a collection of 100 balls drawn with replacement from a big bag containing
10,000 red and 20,000 blue balls.
(b) The number of heads that show up when a fair coin(probability of heads 1/2) is tossed 5 million "
times.
(c) The number of people with a super high IQ(Intelligence Quotient), say over 180 in a highly populous
country.
(d) the number of rolls of a fair die till 2 consecutive 6s show up.

9. The total income of all the 100 households in a locality is Rs.25, 000, 000, the expected value of the
total income of a simple random sample without replacement of 10 households is
;:-
(a) Rs.250, 000 (b) Rs.2500,000 (c) Rs.25,000 (d) Rs.2500

10. Which of the following is not an observation of a Binomial random variable?

(a) The number of heads that show up in 20 tosses of a biased coin.

(b) The number of times at least one 6 shows up when two dice, one fair and one biased are rolled
simultaneously 10 times.
(c) The number of times a red ball is drawn in 5 draws with replacement from a bag containing 50 red
and 100 blue balls.
(d) The total number of heads that show up when a fair coin is tossed 10 times and then a biased coin
is tossed 6 times.

11. Two fair coins are tossed simultaneously till heads shows up on at least one of the coins, the probability
that these coins have to be tossed at least 4 times is
(a) 1/64. (b) 1/8. (c) 1/16. (d) 3/256.

12. X rv N(O, 1), the correlation coefficient between X and Y = IXI is

(a) -1. (b) .1. (c) 0. (d) -1/2.

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13. The correlation coefficient between two random variables X and Y is 1, and the variance of Y is four
times that of X, when X is 5, Y is 12, if X is observed to be 12, what can you say about Y?
(a) Can't say anything based on the data given. (b)Y is equal to 24.
(c) Y will be 24 or 26 with probabilities 1/2 each. (d) Y is equal to 26.
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14. For any independent random variables Xl and X2 whose expected values are zero and variances are 25,
identify the incorrect statement:
(a) Xl+ X2 and Xl - X2 are always independent.
(c) V(XI + X 2) = V(XI - X2 ).

15. P(Z ~ 2) = 0.97725, where Z is the standard normal random variable. If the marks in a public exam
are normally distributed with mean 45 and standard deviation 10, the proportion of students who got
more than 70% marks
(a) is equal to 0.02275. (b) is more than 0.025.
(c) is less than 0.02275. (d) can not be determined.

16. In order to estimate the average number of movies seen by individuals in city per month, it was decided
to stratify the population into disjoint strata to obtain more reliable estimates, a good criterion to
stratify all the people of the city is
(a) Age. (b) Height. (c) Weight. (d) Favorite Colour.

17. Based on a random sample of size n, denote the a - level critical region for a hypothesis testing problem
Ho vs. HI as Ca , if we change the level to al < a, then
(a) Cal = Ca (b) Cal ~ ea (C) ea ~ Cal

18. Xl U«O, 1)) and X2 is another random variable whose probability density function (pdf) is h(x) =
rv

12x2(1 - x) 0 < x < 1 .

, identify the correct statement about the probability distributions of Xl
{ o o.w
and X2 .
(a)E(XI) < E(X2 ). (b)Pr(O < Xl ~ 1/2) < Pr(O < X2 ~ 1/2).
(C)E(XI) = E(X2 ). (d)Pr(O < Xl ~ 1/2) = Pr(O < X2 ~ 1/2).

19. Two heads showed up in n tosses of a fair coin, the maximum likelihood estimate for n is
(a) 5 or 6. (b) 3 or 4. (c) 7. (d) 8.

20. The value of lim (1- . ~t

n-+oo yn
(a) is equal to O. (b) is equal to e- 3/ 2 .
(c) is equal to e- 1 . ( d) does not exist.

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21. When we say that (39,69) is a 95% confidence interval for a parameter e based on a sample Xl, ... ,X50
of size 50, it means that

(a) the probability that () E (39,69) is 0.95.

(b) the random interval (L(XI, ... ,X50 ),U(XI , .•. ,X50 )) contains e for 95% of all samples of size 50
and 39 and 69 are the observed values of L(Xb ... ,X50 ) and U(X 1 , ... ,X50 ) respectively for the
given sample.

(c) there is a small probability of .05 that e < 39 or e > 69.

(d) the probability that e < 39 is at most 0.05.
22. Which of the following is the most suitable approximation for the number of heads in very large number
of tosses of a fair coin:
(a) Poisson. (b) Negative Binomial. (c) Normal. ( d) Exponential.

23. Xl, X 2 , X3 is a random sample from a random variable for which Pr.(X = 1) = p; Pr.(X = 0) =
1 - p, 0 < p < 1, the statistic T(XI' X 2 , X 3) = Xl +X2 - X3 is
(a) an unbiased and sufficient estimator for p. (b) an unbiased but not a sufficient estimator for p.
(c) the most efficient estimator for p. (d) a sufficient but not an unbiased estimator for p.

24. The effectiveness of any treatment for diabetes may be effected by the weight of the patient, so 4
particular treatments were given for 3 months each to 4 patients each randomly in three weight groups
- Normal, Heavy, Very Heavy, the percentage decrease in fasting sugar levels was observed in all the
patients after 3 months of their respective treatments. This Designed Experiment is a

(a) Completely Randomized Design (CRD) and 48 patients are required for this study.
(b) Randomized Block Design (RBD) meant to test whether each treatment is equally effective in each
weight group.

( c) RBD for testing whether patients in the different weight groups respond similarly to each of the 4
treatments.

(d) RBD for testing whether each treatment is equally effective on an average across the weight groups.

25. "Ashok secured top grades in at least two of the five courses" is equivalent to

(a) Ashok did not get top grades in three courses.

(b) Ashok did not get top grades in at least three courses.
( c) Ashok secured top grades in all the five courses.
(d) Ashok did not get top grades in at most .three courses.

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Part-B

• Questions (26)-(37) have more than one correct option. For the answer to be right
all the correct options have to be marked on the OMR sheet.
No credit will be given for partially correct answers.
• Questions (38)-(50) have only one correct option.
• Find the correct answers and mark them on the OMR sheet. Correct answers (marked
in OMR sheet) to a question get 3 marks and zero otherwise.

26. The sum of 7 positive real numbers al,'" ,a7 is 14, so

(a) their product ala2a3a4a5a6a7 can be 125.

(b) their product ala2a3a4a5a6a7 can not be be 130.

(c) if 5 of aI, ... ,a7 are greater than 2, the sum and the product of the remaining two are both less
than 4.

(d) unless all of aI, ... ,a7 are equal, at least one of them is greater than 2.

27. An odd number is twice as likely to be selected as an even number from 1, ... ,10, one number is selected,
let A, Band, C be the events that an even number is selected, number selected is a multiple of 3 and
that the selected number is a multiple of 5 respectively. Identify the correct statements:
(a) A and B are independent events. (b) The expected value of the selected number is more than 5.
(c) A and C are independent events. (d) P(BIA) < P(B).

28. For any pair of iid random variables Xl and X2 that are symmetric about zero, identify the pairs that
are identically distributed

(a)XI + X2 and Xl - X 2 · (b) Xl - X2 and X 2 - Xl.

(C)2XI + X 2 and Xl + 2X2 . (d) Xl and X;X
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29. In a family that has three children, it is known that there is at least one girl child, a child is as likely
to be a girl as a boy so, the probability that

(a) the other two are boys is more than the probability that the other two are girls.

(b) the other two are boys is equal to the probability that the other two are girls.

(c) there are two girls is equal to the probability that there are boys in this family.

(d) there are more girls is more than the probability that there are more boys in this family.
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30. The Lowest,Average and Highest marks obtained by students in two classes A and B are given below:

Class Lowest Average Highest

A 40 55 95
B 35 50 85

If we send the student who got 95, marks from Class - A to Class - B and one who got 85 marks
from Class - B to Class - A, we have

(a) reduced the difference in the average marks of the two classes.

(b) increased the variation in marks in at least one of the classes.

(c) reduced the variation in marks in both the classes.
(d) reduced the variance in the marks of all the students.

31. The heights of Indian adult males are normally distributed with mean 167em. and standard deviation
7cm., so

(a) half of the Indian adult males are taller than 167em ..

(b) about as many are taller than 184em. as those shorter than 153cm ..

(c) if there are 100000 Indian adult males, there may be at most 14 of them who are taller than 188em,.

(d) half of them are shorter than 160cm ..

32. Ho and HI are the null and alternate hypotheses regarding a random variable, some observations are
made of this random variable, the probability of getting the observations that we have if Ho is true is
0.98 and if HI is true, the probability of getting this data is 0.4,

(a) this implies that Ho is true.

(b) this implies that we should accept Ho because HI is false.

(c) we should accept Ho because data contain significantly more evidence in favour of Ho than for HI'

(d) the p- value for this test will be large.

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33. 45 people are employed in a company, the highest income is drawn by 5 of them while 10 each of them
draw the second, third, fourth highest and the remaining 10 draw the least income, to estimate the
minimum and maximum incomes of this company, it was decided to draw a simple random sample
without replacement of 10 employees and use the minimum income and maximum income in the sample
as estimators respectively. Identify the correct statements.

(a) the probability of there being an individual with the highest income in the sample is a little less
than 1/2.

(b) the sample minimum and maximum incomes are not unbiased estimators of the minimum and
maximum wages respectively.

(c) the sample minimum overestimates the minimum income, while the sample maximum underesti-
mates the maximum income.

(d) if the highest, second highest, third highest and fourth highest incomes are 5,4,3 and 2 times as
much as the minimum income, the expected value of the sample maximum is almost half of the
maximum income.
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34. Xl"'" Xn is a random sample from the random variable whose pdf is 1(x) = 0
{ O.W
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let X = ;:;(X1 + ... + X n), X(1) = mm.{XI , ... ,Xn}, X(n) = max.{X1 , •.. ,Xn }, then,
(a) If n = 2, E(X(2) - X(l)) = ~.

(b) X(l) is a sufficient estimator for /-l whether ,X is known or not.

(c) n~l (X - X(1)) is an unbiased estimator for ~.

(d) (nX,X(l)) is jointly sufficient for ('x,/-l).

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35. 11 and h pdfs oftwo random variables Xl and X 2 which are defined as ft(x) = *e- T , -00 < x < 00
and h(x) = ~e-Ixl, -00 < x < 00, identify the correct statements

(a) Pr(IX11 > 2) < Pr(IX2 1> 2).

(b) E(Xr-l) = E(xin-l) = 0, 'in = 1,2, ....
(c) E(x;n) = E(Xin), 'in = 1,2, ....

(d) The moment generating functions of Xl and X 2 exist and are equal.

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36. The function F defined on R as F(x) = { o:$ x < 1 , then F is
x>l

(a) bounded.
(b) non-decreasing in x.
(c) continuous everywhere.
(d) not continuous at x = 0, but continuous everywhere else.

37. Consider a 3 x 3 real matrix A = ( ~ 11)

1 1 , then
2 2

(a) Rank(A) = 3, whatever a maybe.

(b) det( A) =f 0 for some choices of a.
(c) Rank(A) = 2, whatever a maybe.
(d) there is no a E I. for which Rank(A) = 1.
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38. There are 5 balls in a bag and it is equally likely that 1,2,3,4, or all 5 of them are red, if two
balls are drawn without replacement from this bag, the probability that at least one of them is red
is (a)0.5. (b)0.6. (c)O.72. (d)0.8.

39. AllIOO students in a class in UoH know at least one of the three languages, Telugu, Hindi and English.
80 know Telugu, 40 know Hindi and 60 know English, further, 20 know both Telugu and Hindi, 50
know both Telugu and English, while 25 know both Hindi and English, then the number of students
who know Telugu and English but not Hindi is
(a) 35. (b) 25. (c) 20. (d) 18.

40. Two randomly selected squares are to be removed from a chess board, if every pair to be removed is
equally likely, the probability that the two removed squares are neither in the same row, nor in the
same column, nor in the same diagonal-main or off is
(a) less than 1/3. (b) more than 1/3, but, less than 2/3.
(c) more than 2/3, but, less than 3/4. (d) more than 3/4.
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41. The probability distribution of a random variable X is Pr(X = j) = j(j~l)' j = 1,2, ... , regarding its
moments,

(a) the first raw moment exists, none of the raw moments of order higher than 1 exist.
(b) the first and second raw moments exist.

(c) all the raw moments exist.

(d) none of the raw moments exist.

42. Select two numbers without replacement from 1, ... , 10, assume that every selection of two numbers is
equally likely, what is the probability that the product of the selected numbers is at least 20 given that
at least one of the selected numbers is a prime number?

(a) 15/30. (b) 16/30. (c) 17/30. (d) 18/30.

43. The expected value of a random variable X is 55, and the probability that this random variable takes
values between 25 and 85 is 0.98, so

(a) the variance of X could be 20.

(b) the variance of X is 18.

(c) the variance of X is less than 15.

(d) nothing can be said about the variance of X based on the information given.

44. The mean of a Poisson random variable X is 1/2, then, E(X~l) is

(a) 2 . (b) 3. (c) less than 1. (d) more than 3.

45. Xl and X 2 is a random sample from the Geometric distribution, with Pr(Xi = j) = p{l - p)j-\ 2 =
1,2 ;j=l,2, ... o< p < 1, an unbiased estimator for rl:P is
(a) 2-(X1 +X2) . (b) H~ + ~). (c) 2-(Xl+X2- 1).

46. Xl and X 2 are independent exponential random variables, with means 1/2 and 1/3 respectively, then
Pr{XI < X 2 ) is
(a) 1/5. (b) 2/5. (c) 4/5. (d) 1.

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47. Let X be a random sample of size one from the U(O, e+ 1) distribution, e E lR. For testing Ho : e= 1
against HI : e= 2, the test is to reject Ho if X > 1.5, its

(a) Power = 1/2 and Size == 1.

(b) Power = 1/2 and Size == 1/2.

(c) Power = 1 and Size = 1/2.

(d) Power = 1 and Size = O.

48. Let Xl. X 2 , X3 be a random sample from the N(O, (P) population, e > O. Then, the value of k, for
which the estimator k(/XII + /X2 / + /X3 1) is an unbiased for e is
(a) 3~' (b) Ii· (c) Jfi. (d) 3~'

49. 2.8,2.1,2.6,2.4,1.9,2.7 is a random sample from the U(O,e + 1), 0> 0 distribution, the maximum
likelihood estimate for 0 based on this sample is

(a) unique and is equal to 1.9.

(b) unique and is equal to 2.4.

(c) 1.9 or 2.

(d) every number in the interval [1.8, 1.9J.

50. A is a 5 x 5 real matrix, and its rank is 5, B is another 5 x 5 real matrix in which the first and fifth
rows are the fifth and first rows of A respectively, the second and the fourth rows are the fourth and
second rows of A respectively, while third row is the third row of A, so certainly,

(a) Rank(B) = '5, Rank(A + B) = 3.

(b) Rank(B) = 5, Rank(A + B) = 5.
(c) Rank(B) = 4, Rank(A + B) = 4.
(d) Rank(B) == 4, Rank(A + B) = 5.

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