MCQ Hypothesis Testing 3

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Question 1: If $Var(\hat{\theta})\rightarrow 0$ as $n \rightarrow 0$, then $\hat{\theta}$ is said to be

A) Unbiased
B) Sufficient
C) Efficient
D) Consistent

Question 2: If $E(\hat{\theta})=\theta$, then $\hat{\theta}$ is said to be

A) Unbiased
B) Sufficient
C) Efficient
D) Consistent

Question 3: If $Var(T_2) < Var(T_1)$, then $T_2$ is

A) Unbiased
B) Efficient
C) Sufficient
D) Consistent

Question 4: If $f(x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n;\theta)=g(\hat{\theta};\theta)h(x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n)$, then $\hat{\theta}$ is

A) Unbiased
B) Efficient
C) Sufficient
D) Consistent

Question 5: Which of the following assumptions are required to show the consistency, unbiasedness and efficiency of the OLS estimator?
i) $E(\mu_t)=0$
ii) $Var(\mu_t)=\sigma^2$
iii) $Cov(\mu_t,\mu_{t-j})=0;t\neq t-j$
iv) $\mu_t \sim N(0,\sigma^2)$

A) (ii) and (iv) only
B) (i) and (iii) only
C) (i), (ii) and (iii) only
D) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) only

Question 6: For a biased estimator $\hat{\theta}$ of $\theta$, which one is correct

A) $MSE(\hat{\theta})=SD(\hat{\theta}) + Bias$
B) $MSE(\hat{\theta})=Var(\hat{\theta}) + Bias^2$
C) $MSE(\hat{\theta})=Var(\hat{\theta}) + Bias$
D) $MSE(\hat{\theta})=SD(\hat{\theta}) + Bias^2$

Question 7: A test is said to be most powerful test of size $\alpha$, if

A) Among all other test of size $\alpha$ or greater it has the largest $\beta$
B) Among all other test of size $\alpha$ or less it has the largest power
C) Among all other test size a or greater it has the larger 1-$\alpha$
D) Among all other test of size $\alpha$ or greater it has the smallest power

Question 8: In statistical inference, the best asymptotically normal estimator is denote by

A) BAN
B) CANE
C) BANE
D) A) and B)
E) None of these

Question 9: If the conditional distribution of $X_1, X_2,\cdots,X_n$ given $S=s$, does not depend on $\theta$, for any value of $S=s$, the statistics $S=s(X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n)$ is called

A) Unbiased
B) Consistent
C) Sufficient
D) Efficient

Question 10: A set of jointly sufficient statistics is defined to be minimal sufficient if and only if

A) It is a function of every other set of sufficient statistics
B) It is not a function of every other set of sufficient statistics
C) It is a function of some other set of sufficient statistics
D) It is a function of any sufficient statistics in the set

Question 11: If $X_1,X_2,\cdots, X_n$ is the joint density of n random variables, say, $f(X_1, X_2,\cdots, X_n;\theta)$ which is considered to be a function of $\theta$. Then $L(\theta; X_1,X_2,\cdots, X_n)$ is called

A) Maximum Likelihood function
B) Likelihood Function
C) Log Function
D) Marginal Function

Question 12: For two estimators $T_1=t_1(X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n)$ and $T_2=t_2(X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n)$ then estimator $t_1$ is defined to be $R_{{t_1}(\theta)}\leq R_{{t_2}(\theta)}$ for all $\theta$ in $\Theta$

B) Sufficient Estimator
C) Consistent Estimator
D) Minimax Estimator

Question 13: Let $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n$ be a random sample from the density $f(x;\theta)$, where $\theta$ may be vector. If the conditional distribution of $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n$ given $S=s$ does not depend on $\theta$ for any value of s of S, then statistic is called.

A) Minimax Statistics
B) Efficient
C) Sufficient Statistic
D) Minimal Sufficient Statistic

Question 14: $Var_\theta (T) \geq \frac{[\tau'(\theta)]^2}{nE[{\frac{\partial}{\partial \theta}log f((X;\theta)}^2]}$, where $T=t(X_1,X_2,\cdots, X_n)$ is an unbiased estimator of $\tau(\theta)$. Then above inequality is called

A) Cauchy Schawarz Inequality
B) Bool’s Inequality
C) Chebyshev’s Inequality
D) Cramer Rao Inequality

Question 15: Let $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n$ be a random sample from a density $f(x|\theta)$, where $\theta$ is a value of the random variable $\Theta$ with known density $g_\Theta(\theta)$. Then the estimator $\tau(\theta)$ with respect to the prior $g_\Theta(\theta)$ is defined as $E[\tau(\theta)|X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n]$ is called

A) Minimax Estimator
B) Posterior Bay’s Estimator
C) Bay’s Estimator
D) Sufficient Estimator

Question 16: Let $L(\theta;X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_n)$ be the likelihood function for a sample $X_1,X_2,\cdots, X_n$ having joint density $f(x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n;\theta)$ where ? belong to parameter space. Then a test defined as $\lambda=\lambda_n=\lambda(x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n)=\frac{Sup_{\theta\varepsilon \Theta_0}L(\theta;x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n)}{Sup_{\theta\varepsilon \Theta}L(\theta;x_1,x_2,\cdots,x_n)}$

A) Generalized Likelihood Ratio test
B) Most Powerful Uniformly Test
C) Monotone Likelihood Ratio Test
D) Unbiased Test

Question 17:  Let $Z_1,Z_2,\cdots,Z_n$ be independently and identically distributed random variables, satisfying $E[|Z_t|]<\infty$. Let N be an integer valued random variable whose value n depends only on the values of the first n $Z_i$’s. Suppose $E(N)<\infty$, then $E(Z_1+Z_2+\cdots+Z_n)=E( N)E(Z_i)$ is called

A) Independence Equation
B) Neyman Pearson Lemma
C) Sequential Probability Likelihood Equation
D) Wald’s Equation

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