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 June, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

No. of Printed Pages: 3 IRPC-0021

Ph.D PROGRAMME IN PSYCHOLOGY (PHDPC)
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Term-End Examination
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June, 2016
RPC-002 ADVANCED PSYCHOLOGICAL
STATISTICS
Time Iwurs Maximum Marks 100

Note: All sections are compulsory.
Read the instructions carefully before attempting
each section.
Use of simple calculator is pennitted.

SECTION

Answer any ten of the following questions in about 50 words each.

1. Nominal and Interval Scale

2. Median and Mode

3. Average Deviation

4. Partial Correlation

5. Regression

6. Sign test

7. Level of significance

8. Hypothesis testing

9. Histogram

10. Type and Type -II errors

11. Chi -square test

SECTION

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

12. Define Statistics. Differentiate between descriptive and inferential statistics.

13. Compute Spearman's Rank coefficient of correlation for the following data

A B C D E
DataX: 19 18 16 15 13
DataY: 18 19 17 16 14

14. What are the conditions under which t -test can be used? Give a suitable example.

15. Compute Chi -square for the following data:

Responses
Always Frequently Rarely Never
Males 10 30 10 10
Females 20 40 20 30

Critical value 11.345 at 0.01 level of significance
= 7.815 at 0.05 level of significance

16. Compute Mann Whitney U test for the following data

Data 12, 25, 20, 16, 17
Data 2 14, 15, 21, 18, 19

17. Define Variance. Elucidate the steps for Two -way Anova.

SECTION

Answer any two of the following questions in about 500 words each:

18. Describe normal curve with the help of suitable diagram and discuss its characteristics. Discuss divergence from normality.

19. Compute ANOVA for the following data:

Group A 2,3
Group B 2,3,2,2·
Group C 3,2

Critical Value

99.50 at 0.01 level of significance
19.50 at 0.05 level of significance

20. Differentiate between parametric and non-parametric statistics. Compute Kendalls' tau for the following data:

A B C D E
X: 6 7 8 10 4
Y: 7 8 4 5 3


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