Exam Details

Subject Advanced Psychological Statistics
Paper
Exam / Course DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Department School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

Answer any 10 of the following questions in about 50 words each:

1. Measures of Dispersion.

2. Measures of central tendency.

3. Multiple correlation.

4. Skewness and Kurtosis.

5. Pie diagram construction.

6. Inferential statistics.

7. Linear and Non-linear relationship.

8. Use of Variance.

9. Goodness of fit test.

10. Degrees of freedom audits use.

11. Regression and Prediction.

Answer any 5 of the following questions in about 200 words each

12. Define statistics. Describe classification and tabulation as techniques of organising the data.

13. Compute Spearman's rho for the following data:

Data 20, 21, 30, 40, 50

Data 12, 13, 4

14. What is Canonical Correlation? Describe the uses of this correlation.

15. The responses of males and females on an attitude questionnaire are given below. Compute Chi-Square. <img src='./qimages/10389-15.jpg'>

Critical value
13.277 at 0.01 level of significance.
9.488 at 0.05 level of significance.

16. Compute Mann Whitney U test for the following data:

Data 14, 15, 17, 25, 36.
Data 13, 18, 20, 30, 40, 19.

17. Describe scales of measurement with suitable examples.

Answer any 2 of the following questions in about 500 words each

18. Describe and differentiate between parametric and non-parametric statistics. Discuss their application with examples.

19. Compute ANOVA for the following data:

Group 2,3,2,4,2,2,3.
Group
Group

Critical value

99.46 at 0.01 level of significance.
19.45 at 0.05 level of significance.

20. Describe the concept of correlation. Compute Kendall's tau for the following data: <img src='./qimages/10389-20.jpg'>


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