Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 6 Measures Of Dispersion Quiz 3 (25 MCQs)

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1. Which measure of dispersion is most affected by outliers?
2. The mean and the Standard deviation for following valuesi 3ii 11iii 4iv 7v 5is .....
3. Suppose you have 3 data values of 12, 14, and 16. If a value of 30 is added to the data set, what effect does this have on the mean and standard deviation?
4. What is the quartile deviation?
5. Standard de3viataion is usually used to compare two sets of data. If the value of the standard deviation is very small the data is more
6. Find the interquartile range for this set of data 1 3 4 6 7 9 11
7. If the mean is consistent across all sets, which set of data exhibits values that are closer to the mean value, considering their respective standard deviations?Set 1:Standard deviation = 15.9Set 2:Standard deviation = 14.64Set 3:Standard deviation = 17.88Which set displays values that are relatively closer to the mean, given their standard deviations?
8. Which of the following are the merits of SD?
9. Which among the following is NOT true about the measures of variation?
10. If the value of Coefficient of variation is more, the consitency of the data is
11. Standard deviation is always .....
12. The class interval X-55 has a midpoint of 52. State the value of X.
13. What does a high variance value indicate about the data set?
14. Which measure is used to find the middle 50% of a data set?
15. If sample A has a standard deviation of 10 and sample B has a standard deviation of 2, which sample has the larger spread of values?
16. Percentage of data for each level
17. What is the standard deviation for the data given:{12, 13, 29, 18, 61, 35, 21}
18. The variance of a set of data is 18. Find the new variance if each value in the set of the data is substracted by 5 and the divided by 3.
19. Why is median also known as the 50th percentile?
20. The standard deviation describes the spread about which of the following?
21. What is the primary use of standard deviation?
22. The Mean Deviation is the least from the
23. What does variance represent?
24. The Variance of a data is 2.5. Find the new variance if each data is multiplied by 3.
25. Which measure of central tendency is needed to solve the variance of a distribution?