Correlation and Regression
179 Practice MCQs available for CA Foundation
Paper
Paper 3: Quantitative Aptitude
Exam Weightage
4-6 Marks
Key Topics
Correlation Coefficient, Regression Equations
This chapter covers Correlation Coefficient, Regression Equations and is part of Paper 3: Quantitative Aptitude in the CA Foundation exam.
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This topic carries 4-6 Marks weightage. Focus on understanding core concepts rather than memorizing.
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All 179 Questions
The coefficient of rank correlation in a beauty contest of 10 candidates by two judges A & B was found to be 0.5. If it was later discovered that the difference in rank of one candidate was wrongly taken as 3 instead of 7. The corrected coefficient of rank correlation is?
The coefficient of correlation between x and y is 0.6. If u & v variables are defined as and then the coefficient of correlation between u & v is?
If the plotted points in a scatter diagram are evenly distributed, then the correlation is
Speed of an automobile and the distance required to stop the car after applying brakes correlation is
A relationship is not possible
If the plotted points in a scatter diagram lie from upper left to lower right, then correlation is
If the data points of series on a scatter diagram lie along a straight line that goes downwards as - values move from left to right, then the data exhibit ---- correlation.
If the plotted point in a scatter diagram lie from lower left to upper right then correction is:
Scattered diagram is used to plot
The covariance between two variables is
Correlation analysis aims at
When , all the points in a scatter diagram would lie
Price and Demand are the example of
For a classification of bivariate data, the maximum no. of conditional distributions is:
Below scatter diagram shows what type of correlation
For a classification of bivariate data, the maximum no. of conditional distributions is
For a bivariate frequency table, the maximum number of marginal distributions is
If the plotted points in a scatter diagram lie from upper left to lower right, then the correlation is
For a two way or bivariate frequency table, the maximum number of marginal distributions is
A scatter diagram of two variables developing a pattern of multiple circular rings represents which kind of correlation?
For a classification of bivariate data, the maximum no. of conditional distributions is
Correlation coefficient is _________ of the units of measurements.
If the correlation coeff. between the variables and is , then the correlation coefficient between the variables and is
Then Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is
If the regression line of on is given by and Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is then =
What is the coefficient of correlation from the following data?X123456Y543210
For the set of observations the value of Karl-person's coefficient of correlation is approximately given by
The coefficient of correlation between and is the covariance is , variance of is then standard deviation of is
If the sum of the product of the deviations of and from their means is zero the correlation coefficient between and is:
The sum of square of any real positive quantities and its reciprocal is never less than:
Karl Pearson Correlation Coefficient method is used for -
Which of the following is used to find correlation between two qualitative characteristics
Pearson's Correlation coefficient between and is
______ may be defined as the ratio of covariance between the two variables to the product of the standard deviation of the two variables
If , , , then correlation coefficient is
The range of the coefficient of correlation is
The variance of two variables '' and '' are and and covariance between '' and '' is . Another two variables '' and '' are defined as and , then coefficient of correlation between '' and '' is
If the relation between and is and the correlation coefficient between and is , then what is the correlation coefficient between and ?
When then is equal to
Correlation coefficient , and are all have ______ signs
Correlation Co-efficient is ______ of the units of measurements
If for two variable and , the covariance, variance of and variance of are and respectively, what is the value of the correlation coefficient?
The coefficient of correlation between and is the ______ of the two regression coefficients
If the correlation coefficient between and are and
If the coefficient of correlation between and is . If and values are multiplied by , then coefficient of correlation will be
If the relation between two variables and in given by , then the Value of the correlation coefficient between and is
There are two equations: and . Correlation coefficients for and is . Find the correlation coefficients of and
If the covariance between two variables is and the variance of one of the variables is , what would be the variance of the other variable?
The covariance between two variables X and Y is and their variances are and resp. Calculate Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation
If correlation co-efficient r between x and y is then r between x and -y is
If the coefficient of correlation between x and y is , the covariance is and the Standard Deviation of y is
The covariance between two variables X and Y is and their variances are and respectively. Calculate Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation between them.
If r is the Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation in a bivariate distribution the two regression lines are at right angles when
If then coefficient of non-determination is
The correlation between two variables x and y is found to be . What is the correlation between and ?
Correlation Co-efficient is _________ of the units of measurements.
If for two variable x and y, the covariance, variance of x and variance of y are , and respectively, what is the value of the correlation coefficient?
If , , , , then value of n is equal to _________ where ,
The maximum value of correlation coefficient is
If the coefficient of correlation between x and y is , the covariance is and if the standard deviation of x is then Standard deviation of y is:
Rank correlation coefficient lies between
The intersecting point of the two regression lines: on and on is
Given the following series: X 10 13 12 15 8 15 Y 12 16 18 16 7 18 The rank correlation coefficient r =
Determine Spearman's rank correlation coefficient from the given data .
The coefficient of rank correlation between the ranking of following 6 students in two subjects Mathematics and Statistics is: Mathematics | Statistics 3 | 6 5 | 4 8 | 9 4 | 8 7 | 1 10 | 2
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is given by
For a group of students the sum of squares of difference in ranks for physics and chemistry marks was , what is the value of rank correlation coefficient (Choose the nearest value)
Spearman's Correlation Coefficient is used to check
If the sum of squares of difference between ranks, given by two judges A and B of students is , what is the value of rank correlation coefficient?
If three judges appointed for a beauty competition, then how many different rank correlation coefficients are required to analyse the judge competition.
If the sum of squares of difference in ranks, given by two judges A and B of students is . What is the value of rank correlation coefficient?
In a bivariate distribution if the rank correlation coefficient , . Then the no. of observed pairs is
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The sum of the squares of differences in ranks of marks obtained in Physics and Chemistry by students in a test is , then the coefficient of rank correlation by :
If the sum of squares of the rank difference in mathematics and physics marks of students is , then the coefficient of rank correlation is:
The coefficient of rank correlation of marks obtained by students in English and Economics was found to be . It was later discovered that the difference in ranks in the two subjects obtained by one student was wrongly taken as instead of . Find correct coefficient of rank correlation.
In the method of Concurrent Deviations, only the directions of change (Positive direction/Negative direction) in the variables are taken into account for calculation of
If concurrent coefficient is and number of concurrent deviation is for pairs of data. Find total number of pairs?
Standard Error of Correlation coefficient
Probable Error can be obtained using Correlation coefficient as
What is spurious correlation?
If the coefficient of correlation between two variables is then the percentage of variation unaccounted for is
If the coefficient of correlation between two variables is , then the coefficient of determination is
For pairs of observations, number of concurrent deviations was found to be . What is the value of the coefficient of concurrent deviation?
For pairs of observations, the coefficient of concurrent deviation is calculated as . If there are concurrent deviations,
The two line of regression interested at the point
If two lines of regression are and , then the regression line of on is:
If the two regression lines are and , then the value of correlation coefficient is
The regression coefficient is independent of the change of:
A.M. of regression coefficient is
If two line of regression are and . So is
Find the coefficient of correlation.
Given that the variance of is equal to the twice of square of standard deviation of and the regression line of on is . Then regression line of on is
Regression coefficients remain unchanged due to
If and then is equal to:
The straight - line graph of the linear equation , slope is horizontal if:
If , then will be:
If the slope of the regression line is calculated to be and the intercept then the value of if is is:
For any two variables and the regression equations are given as and . What are the A.M. of and ?
The intersecting point of two regression lines falls at -axis. If the mean of -values is , the standard deviations of and are respectively, and , then the mean of -value is
The regression coefficients remain unchanged due
The equations of the two lines of regression are and . Find the correlation coefficient between and ?
The regression equations are and , then Mean of and are:
If , then the value of correlation coefficient is:
For variables and , we collect the four observations with and . What is the regression line of on ?
The regression lines will be perpendicular to each other when the value of is
If the regression equations are and , then the mean of and the mean of are __________, respectively.
If the regression line of on and of on are given by and . Then the arithmetic means of and are
If the coefficient of correlation is and regression coefficient then what is the value of regression coefficient ?
If the Regression coefficient () of on is greater than unity, then other Regression coefficient () of on is:
If is regression line of on and coefficient of correlation between and is , then value of regression coefficient of on is?
If the regression lines are and , then the correlation coefficient between and is __________.
Which of the following statement is correct?
Which of the following statement is correct regarding both of the two regression coefficients?
Equations of two lines of regression are and , the mean of and are
If the two regression coefficients are and , the percentage of unexplained variation is.
If the two regression co-efficient are and the percentage of unexplained variation is:
If the coefficient of determination is and the regression coefficient of on is then the regression coefficient on is.
For two variables and with the same mean the regression equation are and , what is the value of common mean
If two variables are independent their covariance is
In a bivariate population, the linear regression lines and then the coefficient of correlation is
The covariance between two variables and is . The variances of and are and . The coefficient of correlation is
If then the coefficient of non-determination
The two lines of regression become identical when
The regression coefficients remain unchanged due to
If the regression coefficient of on is and the correlation coefficient and the SD is is , the SD of is
If and and correlation coefficient between and is then what be the correlation coefficient between and ?
If the regression coefficient of on is and the variances of and is and respectively then the correlation coefficient is
If is the regression line on and the arithmetic mean of is , what is the arithmetic mean of ?
If the coefficient of determination is and the regression coefficient of on is then the regression coefficient on is
The regression equation and is , the value of
If the regression line of on is given by and then the arithmetic means of and are given by.
The coefficients of correlation between two variables and is the simple ______ of two regression coefficients.
For a positive and perfectly correlated random variables, regression coefficient of on is and the SD of is , the variance of is
If , regression lines are:
If the two regression lines are , then regression line of on is:
If the regression line of on and of on are given by and , then the arithmetic means of and are given by
If the two regression lines are and then the value of correlation coefficient is:
The regression coefficients remain unchanged by
AM of regression coefficient is:
Consider the two regression lines & . Find the mean values of and .
If regression line of on is given by and Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is then
If the regression line of on is given by and Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation is then
When two lines of regression become identical if
If is the regression line of on and the coefficient of correlation between and is , what is the value of the regression coefficient of on ?
The equations of the two lines of regression are and . Find the correlation coefficient between and .
The regression equation are and , then Mean of and respectively are
If , then the value of correlation coefficient is:
If is dependent variable and is independent variable and the S.D. of and are and respectively and co-efficient of co-relation between and is . Find the Regression coefficient of on :
In regression analysis, which of the following can be in the form of an index number?
If both the regression coefficients are negative, what will be coefficient of correlation?
If the regression equation of two variables are and . Find the arithmetic means of and
Two regression lines are perpendicular each other of
Given that and , determine the limits for the population correlation coefficient.
In case of "Insurance companies' profit" and "The number of claims they have to pay", there exists a:
The coefficient of two variables is , then coefficient of non-determination is
If the coefficient of correlation between two variables is then the percentage of variation unaccounted for is
Correlation between unrelated variables is not because of:
If , then coefficient of non-determination is
Which one of the following statement is wrong?
You are given the following data relating to a frequency distribution of 10 observations: then Cov(X, Y) is
If then coefficient of non determination is
The correlation coefficient between X and Y is 0.2 and Var(X) = 5Var(Y) then regression coefficient of X on Y is
Compute the rank correlation coefficient from the following data:
If and , then the regression equation y on x is
If the slope of the regression line is calculated to be 3.5 and the intercept 14 then the value of Y when X is 6 is
For the variables x and y, the regression equations are given as and and the arithmetic means of x and y are 1 and 2 respectively. Compute the correlation coefficient between x and y.
If and , then will be:
The correlation co-efficient between X and Y is 0.8. If we add a number 10 in the X variable and subtracted 20 from Y variable, then the new correlation co-efficient will be -
When both the regression co-efficients are and , respectively, then correlation co-efficient between x and y is
For 9 college students group, the sum of squares of differences in ranks for History and Hindi marks was found to be 62, then what is the value of rank correlation co-efficient?
If then co-efficient of non-determination is
Given and are the two lines of regression x on y and y on x respectively. If the value of correlation co-efficient (r) is 0.5, then the value of k is
For a group of students, the sum of squares of differences in ranks for Maths and Physics marks are found to be 60, which is 120 times the value of rank correlation coefficient. How many students are there in the group?
If two variables move in the same direction i.e. an increase (or decrease) on the part of one variable introduces an increase (or decrease) on the part of the other variable, then the two variables are known to be
If and and regression coefficient of on is 0.80, what is the regression coefficient of on ?
If the regression coefficient is greater than one, then the regression coefficient
The sum of squares of the differences between two ranks awarded by two judges on 10 candidates is _______ if the rank correlation coefficient is 0.8.
Scatter diagram does not help us to:
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