Exam Details

Subject Statistics In Psychology
Paper
Exam / Course M.A. IN PSYCHOLOGY (MAPC)
Department School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date June, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Define parametric and nonparametric statistics.Discuss their assumptions.

2. Describe divergence of normality with suitable diagrams. Explain the factors causing divergence in normal curve.

3. A research was carried out to find if significant difference exists in Achievement Motivation Scores obtained by three groups. Using ANOVA, find out if there exists difference in the 3 groups.

Group Group -II Group -III
4 8 7
4 12 7
6 14 7
2 23 8
4 14 7
4 25 8
5 15 9
2 15 8
3 14 8
4 13 6
Critical value 5.49 at 0.01 level of significance 3.35 at 0.05 level of significance

4. Compute regression equation for X and Y based on the data given below:

Individuals X Y

A 3 2
B 6 4
C 4 7
D 5 9
E 3 11
F 9 12

5. Explain the meaning of descriptive statistics.Discuss its advantages and disadvantages.

6. Calculate Mann -Whitney U -test with the help 6 of the following data Group 1 38, 64, 66, 70, 46
Group 45, 65, 71, 62, 70, 43

7. Compute Chi -square for the following data:

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8. Compute Spearman's Rank correlation for the 6 following data
Data 34, 45, 54, 34, 23, 43, 45, 45, 43, 45
Data 2 43, 45, 54, 34, 34, 43, 43, 23, 34, 43

9. Describe Phi Coefficient and Biserial Correlation.

Write short notes on any two of the following in about 100 words each:

10. Kendall's Tau

11. Wilcoxon Matched Pair Signed Rank Test

12. Multiple Correlation


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  • Advanced Social Psychology
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