Hall Ticket No Question Paper Code: CMB013
INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
(Autonomous)
MBA III Semester End Examinations (Regular) November, 2018
Regulation: IARE-R16
Business Research Methods
Time: 3 Hours Max Marks: 70
Answer ONE Question from each Unit
All Questions Carry Equal Marks
All parts of the question must be answered in one place only
UNIT I
1. What is meant by social research? Discuss its objectives and uses.
Discuss in detail about the motivating factors of social research.
2. Discuss in detail about process of scientific method.
Explain the logical reasoning process in scientific method.
UNIT II
3. What is case study method? Discuss its assumptions ,importance and limitations.
Define survey. Differentiate between survey and experiment.
4. Write short notes on sources of data for case study.
Discuss in detail about social survey and social survey planning with an example.
UNIT III
5. Define schedule. Differentiate between questionnaire and schedule.
What is meant by questionnaire. Discuss the different types of questionnaire.
6. What is observation method? Discuss its types.
What do you understand by scaling techniques. Explain the important scaling techniques and
its types.
UNIT IV
7. What is chi square test? Explain Chi-square as a test of goodness of fit and test of independence
with suitable examples.
Based on the information on 1000 randomly selected fields about the tenancy status of the cultivation
of these fields and use of fertilizers, collected in an agro economic survey, the classification
was noted as shown in Table 1.
Would you conclude that owner cultivators are more inclined towards the use of fertilizers at 5
level?
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Table 1
Owned Rented Total
Using fertilizers 416 184 600
Not Using Fertilizers 64 336 400
480 520 1000
8. Write short notes on ANOVA with example.
Two researcher workers classified some people in income groups on the basis of sampling studies.
Their results are shown in Table 2. Is there any difference between the techniques adopted by two
research workers? Show that the sampling technique of at least one research worker is defective
for d.f. at level of significance)
Table 2
Investigators Income Groups Total
Poor Middle Rich
A 160 30 10 200
B 140 120 40 300
Total 300 150 50 500
UNIT V
9. What is research report? Explain the contents of report writing.
Explain the importance of diagram in presentation of data.
10. What is one dimensional diagram? Discuss any four kinds of one dimensional diagram used in
presentation of data.
What is cartograms? Explain the importance of graphs in detail.