MCQs Non-Parametric-1

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs about Estimation & Hypothesis Non-parametric case) from Statistical Inference for the preparation of exam and different statistical job tests in Government/ Semi-Government or Private Organization sectors. These tests are also helpful in getting admission to different colleges and Universities.

MCQs about non-Parametrics Statistics

1. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test compares

 
 
 
 

2. In the Kruskal-Wallis test of $k$ samples, the appropriate number of degrees of freedom is

 
 
 
 

3. In a Wilcoxon rank-sum test

 
 
 
 

4. The Mann-Whitney U test is preferred to a t-test when

 
 
 
 

5. Three brands of coffee are rated for taste on a scale of 1 to 10. Six persons are asked to rate each brand so that there is a total of 18 observations. The appropriate test to determine if three brands taste equally good is

 
 
 
 

6. If a Chi-square goodness of fit test has 6 categories and an N=30, then the correct number of degrees of freedom is

 
 
 
 

7. When testing for randomness, we can use

 
 
 
 

8. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test can be

 
 
 
 

9. In testing for the difference between two populations, it is possible to use

 
 
 
 

10. The Runs test results in rejecting the null hypothesis of randomness when:

 
 
 
 

11. To perform a runs test for randomness the data must be

 
 
 
 

12. Comparing the times-to-failure of radar transponders made by firms A, B, and C, based on an airline’s sample experience with the three types of instruments, one may well call for:

 
 
 
 

13. Which of the following tests must be two-sided?

 
 
 
 

14. Which of the following test use rank sums?

 
 
 
 

15. Compare to parametric methods, the nonparametric methods are

 
 
 
 

16. The sign test is

 
 
 
 

17. Which of the following test is most likely assessing the null hypothesis of “the number of violations per apartment in the population of all city apartments is binomially distributed with a probability of success in any one trial of $P=0.4”

 
 
 
 

18. When using the Sign test, if two scores are tied, then we

 
 
 
 

19. The nonparametric equivalent of an unpaired samples t-test is

 
 
 
 

20. The sign test assumes that the samples are

 
 
 
 

21. The Wilcoxon signed-rank is used

 
 
 
 

22. The Spearman rank-correlation test requires that the

 
 
 
 

Most of the MCQs on this page are covered from Estimate and Estimation, Testing of Hypothesis when the assumption of population parameters are unknown, that is Non-Parametric tests, etc.

Muhammad Imdad Ullah

Currently working as Assistant Professor of Statistics in Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan. Completed my Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. l like Applied Statistics, Mathematics, and Statistical Computing. Statistical and Mathematical software used is SAS, STATA, GRETL, EVIEWS, R, SPSS, VBA in MS-Excel. Like to use type-setting LaTeX for composing Articles, thesis, etc.

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