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Below are the scanned copy of Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Question Paper with answer keys of Exam Name 'RESEARCH OFFICER ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS' And exam conducted in the year 2015. And Question paper code was '160/2015'. Medium of question paper was in Malayalam or English . Booklet Alphacode was 'A'. Answer keys are given at the bottom, but we suggest you to try answering the questions yourself and compare the key along wih to check your performance. Because we would like you to do and practice by yourself.
160/2015
India’s first computer was installed at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in the year :
(A) 1950 (1). 1988 (C) 1956 (D) 1938
Who is the founder of “Sankhya”, the Indian Journal of Statistics ?
(A) CR. Rao (B) R.C. Bose
(C) S.N.Roy (D) २.८. Mahalanobis
Which ministry co-ordinates the census activities in India ?
(A) Home Affairs (8) MoSPI (3) பம் (D) Finance
Which of the following measures involve nominal scale ?
(3) The runs scored by a batsman (8) The rank of a student in a test
(C) The height of a tree (D) ट number on an automobile license plate
A random sample of 50 is picked without replacement from a population of 1000 adult
males. If the standard deviation of the distribution of their heights is known to be 3 inches,
then the standard error of the sample mean is :
2 7 55 7
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Which of the following statements is true ?
(५) Sample survey 15 free of non - sampling errors
(ठ) Sampling error is present in both census and sample surveys
(ര) Non - sampling error is comparatively low in sample surveys
(D) Non - sampling error is comparatively low in census surveys
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If a continuous random variable X has a pdf of the form f (स 0
then the median of X is :
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2 3
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If X and Y are independent random variables with respective moment generating functions
[ട് (0 1! ಸ! ಎಲ ) and لبت تدز وإ கலி! 46), then the possible values
of Z=X+Y are:
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(^) 0, 4 16, 36 0 0118
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