Top 550+ Solved Total Quality Management (TQM) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What are residuals?
a. Residuals are the differences between the observed and expected dependent variable scores
b. Serendipitous findings
c. Extreme scores
d. Uncontrolled variables
Q. An unbiased dice is rolled once. The probability of getting a number greater than 4 is:
a. 1/4
b. 1/6
c. 1/2
d. 1/3
Q. What is the purpose of a simple linear regression?
a. To predict scores on a dependent variable from scores on a single independent variable
b. To predict scores on an independent variable from scores on a single dependent variable
c. To predict scores on an independent variable from scores on multiple dependent variables
d. To predict scores on a dependent variable from scores on multiple independent variables
Q. Attribute charts may be used when:
a. Several characteristics can be jointly measured
b. When one particular quality characteristic is of importance
c. Specific information like process mean is required
d. None of these
Q. In hypothesis testing, a Type 2 error occurs when
a. The null hypothesis is not rejected when the null hypothesis is true.
b. The null hypothesis is rejected when the null hypothesis is true.
c. The null hypothesis is not rejected when the alternative hypothesis is true.
d. The null hypothesis is rejected when the alternative hypothesis is true.
Q. Student's t-statistic is applicable in case of:
a. Equal number of samples
b. Unequal number of samples
c. Small samples
d. All of the above
Q. Which of the following assumptions must be met to use an ANOVA?
a. There is only one dependent variable
b. The data must be normally distributed
c. There is homogeneity of variance
d. All of these
Q. Which of the following is an assumption of one-way ANOVA comparing samples fromthree ‘or more experimental treatments?
a. All the response variables within the k populations follow Normal distributions.
b. The samples associated with each population are randomly selected and are independent from all other samples.
c. The response variable within each of the k populations has equal variances.
d. All of the above.
Q. When conducting a one-way ANOVA, the ______________ the between-treatmentvariability is when compared to the within-treatment variability, the ______________ the FValue calculated from the data will tend to be.
a. smaller, larger
b. smaller, smaller
c. larger, larger
d. smaller, larger
Q. You carried out an ANOVA on a preliminary sample of data. You then collected additional data from the same groups; the difference being that the sample sizes for each group were increased by a factor of 10, and the within-group variability has decreased substantially. Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
a. The degrees of freedom associated with the error term has increased
b. The degrees of freedom associated with the treatment term has increased
c. The Residual Sum of Squares (SSE) has decreased
d. The F-Value calculated from the data (F-Value) has changed
Q. In the two-factor, between subjects (or two-way) ANOVA:
a. The three F tests always have the same power to reject the null hypothesis.
b. The test for an interaction always has more power than the test for a main effect.
c. The power of the F test is not necessarily increased by having larger samples.
d. The three F tests do not always have the same power to reject the null hypothesis.
Q. A ______________ effect(s) analysis examines mean differences at each level of theindependent variable.
a. main
b. simple main
c. interaction
d. simple interaction
Q. Factorial designs allow us to study both ______________ effects of the independentvariables on the dependent variables.
a. main and interactive
b. dependent and independent
c. symbiotic and dichotomous
d. rank order and correlation
Q. Consider two factors A and B, each with two levels. If there is no interaction between thesetwo factors, the difference in the response variable between the two levels of factor A would be ______________ the difference between the two levels of factor B.
a. unrelated to
b. equal to
c. half
d. twice