Top 550+ Solved Total Quality Management (TQM) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. In ANOVA, a factor is defined as the:
a. Dependent variable.
b. Independent variable.
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of these
Q. A 2 X 2 factorial design
a. Is called a one-way ANOVA.
b. Results in a four-cell matrix.
c. Cannot yield interactions.
d. Must include an organism independent variable.
Q. Which of the following distributions is suitable to model the length of time that elapsesbefore the first employee passes through the security door of a company?
a. Exponential
b. Normal
c. Poisson
d. Binomial
Q. Smaller p-values indicate more evidence in support of:
a. the null hypothesis
b. the alternative hypothesis
c. the quality of the researcher
d. further testing
Q. Analysis of variance is a statistical method of comparing the ______________ of severalpopulations.
a. standard deviations
b. variances
c. means
d. proportions
Q. If the Mean Square Error MSE of an ANOVA for six treatment groups is known, you cancompute
a. degrees of freedom, df1
b. the standard deviation of each treatment group
c. the pooled standard deviation
d. all answers are correct
Q. In a study, subjects are randomly assigned to one of three groups: control, experimental A, or experimental B. After treatment, the mean scores for the three groups are compared. The appropriate statistical test for comparing these means is:
a. the correlation coefficient
b. chi square
c. the t-test
d. the analysis of variance
Q. If the F-Value calculated from the data is 5.0, the result is statistically significant
a. Always
b. Sometimes
c. Never
d. Illogical Question
Q. Which of these characterizes a factorial design?
a. One in which there is a single independent variable.
b. One in which there is more than one independent variable
c. One in which the researcher wants to investigate the interactions between variables
d. Both B and C
Q. What statistic is used to check the significance of the Kruskal-Wallis test?
a. Mean rank
b. Partial
c. t-value
d. Chi squared
Q. What is the appropriate statistical test for a factorial design?
a. the Modes test
b. ANOVA
c. t-test
d. chi-square
Q. Give the F test for the interaction effect of factors A and B.
a. F = (SSABB )/MSE
b. F = (SSA)/MSE + (SSB)/MSE
c. F = (MSA)/MSE + (MSB)/MSE
d. F = (MSAB)/MSE
Q. The Kruskal-Wallis is based upon the ______________ test.
a. Pearson's r
b. Wilcoxon
c. Mann Whitney
d. Friedman
Q. In a factorial experiments, we
a. test one factor at a time
b. cannot estimate interactions
c. test all possible combination of factor levels are tested
d. all of these