Statistics MCQs on Testing of Hypothesis

Q1: The sign test is

A) Less Powerful than that of the Wilcoxon signed rank test
B) More Powerful than the paired sample t-test

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C) More Powerful than the Wilcoxon signed rank test
D) Equivalent to Mann-Whitney test
Q2: The non parametric equivalent of an unpaired samples t-test is
A) Sign test
B) Wilcoxon signed rank test

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C) Mann-Whitney U test
D) Kruskal Wallis Test
Q3: The Mann-Whitney U test is preferred to a t-test when
A) Data are paired
B) Sample sizes are small

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C) The assumption of normality is not met

Q4: When using the sign test, if two scores are tied, then
A) we count them
B) we discard them
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C) we depends upon the scores
D) None of these
Q5: The sign test assumes that the
A) Samples are independent
B) Samples are dependent
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C) Samples have the same mean

D) None of these
Q6: When testing for randomness, we can use
A) Mann-Whitney U test
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B) Sign test
C) Runs test
D) None of these
Q7: The Runs test results in rejecting the null hypothesis of
randomness when
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A) There is an unusually large number of runs

B) There is an unusually small number of runs
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C) Either of the above

D) None of the above

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Q8: Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test can be of
A) Upper tailed
B) Lower tailed
C) Either of the above
D) None of the above
Q9: The Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test used to compares

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A) Two populations
B) Three Populations
C) A sample mean to the population mean
D) Any number of populations

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Q10: The Wilcoxon Signed Rank test is used

B) Only in matched pairs samples (dependent samples)

C) As an alternative to the Kruskal-Wallis test
D) To test for randomness
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Q11: Which of the following test use Rank Sums
A) F test
B) Chi-Square and Sign tests
C) Runs test
D) Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon tests
Q12: Which of the following test must be two-sided?
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A) Kruskal-Wallis
B) Wilcoxon Signed Rank
C) Runs test
D) Sign test
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Q13: In testing for the dierence between two populations, it is possible

to use
A) The Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test
B) The Sign test
C) Either of the above
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D) None of the above

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Q14: In a Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test

A) Ties never aect the decision
B) Ties always aect the decision

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C) Ties within one sample may aect the decision
D) Ties between the two samples may aect the decision
Q15: The Spearman Rank-Correlation test requires that the
A) Data must be measured on the same scale
B) Data should be of ordinal scale at least

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C) Data must be from two independent samples
D) Data must be distributed at least approximately as a
t-distribution
Q16: To perform a Runs test for randomness the data must be
A) Qualitative
B) Quantitative
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C) Divided into at least two classications
D) Divided into exactly two classication
Q17: Three brands of coee 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
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18 observations. The appropriate test to determine if three brand
taste equally good is
A) One way analysis of variance (ANOVA)
B) Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test
C) Spearman Rank dierence
D) Kruskal-Wallis test
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Q18: Comparing the times-to-failur of radar transponders made by rms

A, B, and C based on an airline's sample experience with the three
types of instruments one may use
A) Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
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B) Kruskal-Wallis test
C) Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test
D) Spearman Rank Correlation test
Q19: Which of the following tests is most likely assessing this null
hypothesis: H0 The number of violations per apartment in the
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population of all city apartments is binomially distributed with a

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probability of success in any one trial of P=0.3

A) The Kolmogorove-Simirnov test
B) The Kruskal-Wallis test

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C) The Mann-Whitney test
D) The Wilcoxon Signed Rank test
Answers
1) A 2) C 3) C 4) B 5) B
6) C 7) C 8) C 9) A 10) B

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11) D 12) D 13) C 14) C 15) B
16) D 17) D 18) B 19) A

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