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Edexcel A-Level Further Mathematics Further Statistics overview quiz quiz

11questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. For a discrete random variable, which formula gives the variance?

  2. Under linear coding, what is Var(aX+b)\operatorname{Var}(aX + b)?

  3. For a Poisson random variable XPo(λ)X \sim \operatorname{Po}(\lambda), what are its mean and variance?

  4. What is the probability mass function of XPo(λ)X \sim \operatorname{Po}(\lambda)?

  5. When is the Poisson approximation to the binomial B(n,p)B(n, p) appropriate?

  6. What is the chi-squared test statistic?

  7. For an r×cr \times c contingency table, how many degrees of freedom does the chi-squared test have?

  8. When should Yates' correction be applied in a chi-squared test?

  9. For a geometric distribution XGeo(p)X \sim \operatorname{Geo}(p), what is the mean?

  10. The negative binomial distribution for the rrth success has which mean?

  11. Before computing a goodness of fit statistic, what must you do with classes whose expected frequency is below 5?