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OCR A-Level Further Maths A Statistics option overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. For a discrete random variable, the probabilities must:

  2. The expectation of a discrete random variable is:

  3. The variance of a discrete random variable equals:

  4. Var(aX+b)\mathrm{Var}(aX + b) equals:

  5. For a continuous random variable, probabilities are found by:

  6. The cumulative distribution function F(x)F(x) relates to the pdf f(x)f(x) by:

  7. For a Poisson distribution, the mean and variance are:

  8. The Poisson approximation to the binomial is good when:

  9. The geometric distribution P(X=x)=(1βˆ’p)xβˆ’1p\mathrm{P}(X = x) = (1-p)^{x-1}p has mean:

  10. The chi-squared test statistic is:

  11. The degrees of freedom for an rΓ—cr \times c contingency table are:

  12. A non-parametric test that uses only the signs of differences from a hypothesised median is the: