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Stats 1 Qualifier: 13 April 2025 (January 2025 term)

Question 1

+2 marksOne correct option

An inspection officer wants to test the tensile strength of threaded rods produced by a factory. If he selects 40 threaded rods at random from those that produced in the month of August 2022 at the factory. Identify the sample and population.

  1. A

    The population is all threaded rods ever produced at the factory and the sample is all the threaded rods produced in the month of August 2022.

  2. B

    The population is all threaded rods ever produced at the factory, and the sample is the 40 selected threaded rods.

  3. C

    The population is all threaded rods produced in the year 2022 and the sample is the threaded rods produced in the month of August 2022.

  4. D

    None of these.

Question 2

+3 marksOne correct option

Select the correct statements from the following:

  1. A

    Two data sets with the identical frequency distributions will have identical relative frequency distributions.

  2. B

    A relative frequency is the number of observations belonging to a category.

  3. C

    Two data sets with the identical relative-frequency distributions will always have identical frequency distributions.

  4. D

    If all of the bars in a bar chart have the same length, then the categorical variable shown in the bar chart has no variation.

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Question 3

+2 marksOne or more correct options

Which of the following statement(s) is(are) true?

Select all that apply.

  1. A

    Eye colour of a person has ordinal scale of measurement.

  2. B

    Recording the price of bitcoin every hour for 3 days is a time-series data.

  3. C

    Number of students present in a class is a discrete variable.

  4. D

    Amount of milk (in litres) is a categorical variable.

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The IIT Madras BS Statistics for Data Science I (Stats 1) Qualifier paper sat on 13 Apr 2025, in the January 2025 term: 14 questions for 40 marks in 120 minutes. The first 3 questions are below. Sign in with Google — it is free — to see the whole paper with its answers and explanations, in learning mode or as a timed mock test.

FeatureStats 1 Qualifier 13 Apr 2025 at a glance
TermJanuary 2025 term
SubjectStatistics for Data Science I
Course codeBSMA1002
Questions14
Marks40
Duration120 min
MCQ2
MSQ6
Numerical6
Official paperIIT M DS REATTEMPT AN EXAM QDQ1 13 Apr 2025
Negative markingNo negative marking.
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