LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – COMPUTER SCIENCE
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THIRD SEMESTER – NOV 2006
CS 3201 – STATISTICAL METHODS
Date & Time : 31-10-2006/9.00-12.00 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
SECTION A
Answer ALL the questions. 10 × 2 = 20
- Define Geometric Mean.
- Find the mode for the following distribution:
Class interval: 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
Frequency : 5 8 7 12 28 20 10
- State the properties of regression lines.
- Write the application of chi-square test.
- Three coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at least one head?
- What is the chance that a leap year selected at random will contain 53 Sundays?
- Find the expectation of the number on a die when thrown.
- If X and Y are two random variables, determine whether X and Y are independent for the following joint probability density function
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- Find the moment generating function of Uniform distribution.
- Write the probability density function of Normal distribution.
SECTION B
Answer ALL the questions. 5 × 8 = 40
- (a) Calculate the mean and median for the following frequency distribution.
Class interval: 0-8 8-16 16-24 24-32 32-40 40-48
Frequency : 8 7 16 24 15 7
(or)
(b) Calculate the (i) Quartile deviation and (ii) Mean deviation from mean for the following data.
Marks : 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
No of students : 6 5 8 15 7 6 3
- (a) A problem in Statistics is given to five students whose chances of solving it are 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2 respectively. What is the probability that the problem is solved?
(or)
(b) A coin is tossed three times. Find the chances of throwing, (i) three heads (ii) two heads and one tail and (iii) head and tail alternatively.
- (a) A computer while calculating correlation coefficient between two variables X and Y from 25 pairs of observations obtained the following results : n = 25, ∑X = 125, ∑= 650, ∑Y = 100, ∑= 460, ∑XY = 508. It was however later discovered at the time of checking that he had copied down tow pairs as while the correct values are. Obtain the correct value of correlation coefficient.
(or)
(b) A random sample of students of XYZ University was selected and asked their opinion about ‘autonomous colleges’. The results are given below. The same number of each sex was included within each class-group. Test the hypothesis at 5% level that opinions are independent of the class groupings. (Given value of chi-square for 2, 3 degree of freedom are 5.991, 7.82 respectively)
| class | Favouring ‘autonomous colleges’ | Opposed to ‘autonomous colleges’ |
| B.A/B.Sc part I | 120 | 80 |
| B.A/B.Sc part II | 130 | 70 |
| B.A/B.Sc part III | 70 | 30 |
| M.A/M.Sc. | 80 | 20 |
- (a) For the discrete joint distribution of two dimensional random variable (X, Y) given below, calculate E(X), E(Y), E(X+Y), E(XY). Examine the independence of variables X and Y.
| X \ Y | 2 | 5 |
| -1 | .27 | 0 |
| 0 | .08 | .04 |
| 2 | .16 | .10 |
| 3 | 0 | .35 |
(or)
(b) A random variable X has the following probability function:
X : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
P(X) : 0 k 2k 2k 3k
(i) Find k (ii) Evaluate P(X<6), and (iii) determine the distribution function of X.
- (a) A coffee connoisseur claims that he can distinguish between a cup of instant coffee and a cup of percolator coffee 75% of the time. It is agreed that his claim will be accepted if he correctly identified at least 5 of the 6 cups. Find his chance of having the claim (i) accepted (ii) rejected when he does have the ability he claims.
(or)
(b) Define Exponential distribution. Find the mean and variance of the same.
SECTION C
Answer any TWO questions: 2 × 20 = 40
- (a) The first four moments of a distribution about the value 4 of the variable are -1.5, 17, -30 and 108. Find the moments about mean,, . Find also the moments about origin, coefficient of skewness and kurtosis.
(b) Obtain the equations of two lines of regression for the following data. Also obtain (i) the estimate of X for Y = 70 (ii) the estimate of Y for X = 71
X : 65 66 67 67 68 69 70 72
Y : 67 68 65 68 72 72 69 71 (8+12)
- (a) Three groups of children contain respectively 3 girls and 1 boy, 2 girls and 2 boy and 1girl and 3 boys. One child is selected at random from each group. Show that the chance that the three selected consists of 1 girl and 2 boys is 13/32.
(b) (i) State Baye’s Theorem .
(ii) In a bolt factory machines A, B and C manufacture respectively 25%, 35% and 40% of total. Of their output 5, 4, 2 percent are defective bolts. A bolt is drawn at random from the product and is found to be defective. What are the probabilities that it was manufactured by machines A, B and C? (8+12)
- (a) Two random variable X and Y have the following joint p.d.f.:
Find (i) Marginal p.d.f. of X and Y.
(ii) Conditional density functions.
(iii) Var(X) and Var(Y).
(iv) Covariance between X and Y.
(b) Find the mean and variance of Binomial distribution. (12+8)
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