Statistics and analysis Previous Year Questions with Answers

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34 of 34 questions

Question 1 of 34Original Question No.: 12Asked in: December 2006 Paper II

The square of standard deviation is called:

Sample Variation
Standard Variance
Sample error
Estimation error

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B. Standard Variance

The keyed response is option 2, “Standard Variance”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 2 of 34Original Question No.: 13Asked in: December 2006 Paper II

The statistical test developed by R.A. Fisher is:

Anova
Chi - square test
Z - test
Sign test 6

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A. Anova

The keyed response is option 1, “Anova”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 3 of 34Original Question No.: 42Asked in: December 2007 Paper II

Match the List - I (Statistical Test) with List - II (Descriptions): List - I (Statistical Test) List - II (Descriptions) (a) The t’ test (i) Similarities of difference between two or more frequency distribution (b) Chi-square (ii) Comparison between means (c) ANOVA (iii) Uses principal component analysis (d) Factor analysis (iv) Uses F statistic Code: (a) (b) (c) (d)

(i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(iv) (iii) (i) (ii)

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A. (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)

Option 1 gives the keyed pairing or order: (i) (iii) (ii) (iv). Reconstruct the dates or associations in statistics and analysis before comparing the four sequences.

Question 4 of 34Original Question No.: 3Asked in: June 2007 Paper II

The comprehensive sequence of lines that contain the field of lines creating a video picture is identified as:

record mode
resolution
raster
safe action area

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C. raster

Option 3 gives the keyed pairing or order: raster. Reconstruct the dates or associations in statistics and analysis before comparing the four sequences.

Question 5 of 34Original Question No.: 16Asked in: June 2007 Paper II

An inductive method is normally used in:

statistical tests
content analysis
path analysis
exploratory research

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D. exploratory research

The keyed response is option 4, “exploratory research”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 6 of 34Original Question No.: 24Asked in: June 2007 Paper II

One - tailed test is a statistical test based on the presumption that the hypothesis in question is:

asymmetrical
linear
non - linear
directional

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D. directional

The keyed response is option 4, “directional”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 7 of 34Original Question No.: 7Asked in: June 2009 Paper II

Which of the following statistical tools is used for Prediction?

Range
Regression
Standard deviation
Mean

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B. Regression

The keyed response is option 2, “Regression”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 8 of 34Original Question No.: 49Asked in: June 2009 Paper II

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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow based on your understanding of the passage. Uses and gratifications research has shed a good deal of light on viewer motivations for watching TV,but the approach has not been particularly successful in predicting the actual amount of television use.Roe Vandebosch (1996) suggest that one reason for the inability to predict is that researchers sometimes overlook the obvious--such as the weather Seasonal variations in TV viewing are well documented:People watch more in the winter and less in the summer.Roe and vandebosch,however,suggest that specific weather effects occur with each season. The researchers gathered detailed meteorological data in Belgium for a year including temperature, Precipitation amount,wind speed,cloud cover,barometric pressure, and hours of sunlight. They also collected television viewing statistics encompassing the percentage viewing and the daily average amount of time spent watching. Their results showed strong correlations between all their weather-related measures,except for barometric pressure, and viewing with some correlations reaching as high as 7.5 Further more,there was consistency within each individual reason. People watch more TV when there were fewer hours of daylight,when the temperature was low,when wind speed was high,and when these was some precipitation. The implication in this finding for broadcasters was clear. The single most important determiner of TV audience size was wholly beyond their control.

The correlation that was run was:

Between Weather data and viewing habit.
Between barometer pressure and wind speed
Between temperature and type of Season
Between daylight and darkness.

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A. Between Weather data and viewing habit.

The keyed response is option 1, “Between Weather data and viewing habit.”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 9 of 34Original Question No.: 50Asked in: June 2009 Paper II

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The main point of the research that was done by Roe and Vandelbosch firmly establishers:

That Weather is the important variable to determine the viewership.
Belgium as the center of weather research
Correlation is a must in reserch
TV audience size cannot be decided with one factor only

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A. That Weather is the important variable to determine the viewership.

The keyed response is option 1, “That Weather is the important variable to determine the viewership.”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 10 of 34Original Question No.: 2Asked in: June 2010 Paper II

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means is called

standard error
standard variance
standard distance
standard deficiency

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A. standard error

The keyed response is option 1, “standard error”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 11 of 34Original Question No.: 9Asked in: June 2010 Paper II

Testing the clarity of a tool or instrument for collecting information is known as

Pilot-test
Pre-test
Post-test
Summative-test

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A. Pilot-test

The keyed response is option 1, “Pilot-test”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 12 of 34Original Question No.: 37Asked in: June 2010 Paper II

Match the following: List – I List – II (Model) (Proponent) (a) Hierarchy of effects (i) George Gerbner (b) Audience-centred social marketing (ii) Janice Radway (c) Mean World Index (iii) Rice and Atkin (d) Feminist reception studies (iv) Brenda Dervin Code: (a) (b) (c) (d)

(iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

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A. (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)

Option 1 gives the keyed pairing or order: (iii) (iv) (i) (ii). Reconstruct the dates or associations in statistics and analysis before comparing the four sequences.

Question 13 of 34Original Question No.: 40Asked in: June 2010 Paper II

Match the following statistical test to their application: List – I List – II (a) T test (i) Prediction (b) X2 test (ii) Comparison of means of two groups (c) Correlation (iii) Observed Vs. expected frequencies (d) Multiple regression (iv) Covariance Code: (a) (b) (c) (d)

(iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

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C. (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)

Option 3 gives the keyed pairing or order: (i) (iv) (iii) (ii). Reconstruct the dates or associations in statistics and analysis before comparing the four sequences.

Question 14 of 34Original Question No.: 46Asked in: June 2010 Paper II

Passage for this question

Read the passage below, and answer the questions (46 to 50) that follow based on your understanding of the passage: The prominent example of the difference between surveys and experiments is research into the cultivation effects of television. Through survey evidence, this research has found correlational links between the amount of viewing that is claimed by respondents and certain patterns in their social beliefs, perceptions and levels of anxiety (Gerbner etal. 1977, 1979, 1986). Such global measures of television viewing may lack the necessary sensitivity to the significant variations in the message content of television. More detailed measures of viewing habits, using diaries, have indicated that certain social perceptions may be sensitive to influences from particular types of programmes but not from others. An analysis of British viewers found no link between their perception of personal victimization in their local neighbourhood and any aspect of their television viewing, while a corresponding analysis of viewers in Los Angeles found the same perception to be associated with their reported viewing of US-produced crime drama shows. This suggests, among other things, that if the information of certain programmes is seen by viewers to have a direct relevance to their immediate social context, it may affect their particular perceptions of that context.

The survey result in Gerbner’s study revealed a correlation between

amount of expected viewing and sensitivity.
amount of viewing and variations in television content.
amount of viewing claimed and patterns of social beliefs.
amount of viewing claimed and patterns of television viewing.

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B. amount of viewing and variations in television content.

The keyed response is option 2, “amount of viewing and variations in television content.”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 15 of 34Original Question No.: 16Asked in: June 2011 Paper II

In Radio, the term FM stands for

Frequency Modification
Frequency Modulated
Frank Mode
Frank Mass

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B. Frequency Modulated

The keyed response is option 2, “Frequency Modulated”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 16 of 34Original Question No.: 25Asked in: December 2012 Paper III

The fitness of good test of applying chi-square to find out the association between two variables demands a minimum sample of

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D. 50

The keyed response is option 4, “50”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 17 of 34Original Question No.: 24Asked in: December 2013 Paper III

Non-parametric tests are generally applied to analyse

Nominal data
Ordinal data
Interval data
Ratio data

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A. Nominal data

The keyed response is option 1, “Nominal data”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 18 of 34Original Question No.: 15Asked in: June 2013 Paper III

In communication research, the chi-square statistic is also referred to as

Correlation
Dispersion
Crosstabs
Convenient statistic

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C. Crosstabs

The keyed response is option 3, “Crosstabs”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 19 of 34Original Question No.: 19Asked in: June 2013 Paper III

Non-parametric tests measure variables at

Ratio level
Interval level
Nominal level
Non-conditional level

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C. Nominal level

The keyed response is option 3, “Nominal level”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 20 of 34Original Question No.: 45Asked in: June 2013 Paper III

Readability tests do not test

Sentence length
Word count
Syllable count
Word familiarity

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D. Word familiarity

The keyed response is option 4, “Word familiarity”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 21 of 34Original Question No.: 37Asked in: September 2013 Paper II

Personal, real time and customized online media with a 3-D mode are called

multi-media
digital media
online media
immersive media

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D. immersive media

The keyed response is option 4, “immersive media”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 22 of 34Original Question No.: 26Asked in: December 2014 Paper III

One of the important ways to ascertain the range of spread of variables in a sample is through the calculations of:

Sample size
Mode
Confidence level
Standard Deviation

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D. Standard Deviation

The keyed response is option 4, “Standard Deviation”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 23 of 34Original Question No.: 28Asked in: December 2015 Paper III

The test normally used to find out the significance of mean difference among four independent variables is __________.

Z - test
Chi - square test
Partial correlation
Analysis of variance

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D. Analysis of variance

The keyed response is option 4, “Analysis of variance”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 24 of 34Original Question No.: 9Asked in: June 2015 Paper III

The concept of central limit theorem helps in the computation of:

confidence level
confidence interval
random error
sampling error

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D. sampling error

The keyed response is option 4, “sampling error”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 25 of 34Original Question No.: 23Asked in: June 2015 Paper III

The correlation computed between pairs of variables is known as:

Q type factor analysis
R type factor analysis
P type factor analysis
S type factor analysis

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A. Q type factor analysis

The keyed response is option 1, “Q type factor analysis”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 26 of 34Original Question No.: 34Asked in: June 2015 Paper III

The post-test only control group design’ is amenable to the application of:

ANOVA
t-test
Chi-square test
Partial Correlation

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B. t-test

The keyed response is option 2, “t-test”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 27 of 34Original Question No.: 16Asked in: July 2016 Paper III

Yate’s correction is used in

factor analysis
discriminant analysis
chi-square test
ANOVA

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C. chi-square test

The keyed response is option 3, “chi-square test”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 28 of 34Original Question No.: 26Asked in: September 2016 Paper III

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of means is also known as

standard error
means of samples
deviation of means
sample deviation

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A. standard error

Question 29 of 34Original Question No.: 30Asked in: September 2016 Paper III

The given range with a known degree of confidence having an assertion of true values is referred to as

inferential level
standard range
confidence interval
descriptive census

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C. confidence interval

The keyed response is option 3, “confidence interval”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 30 of 34Original Question No.: 73Asked in: June 2020 cycle - 24 September 2020, Shift II

Match List I with List Il List | List Il Graphs Description A. Line graph |. Presents a frequency distribution B. Histograph i]. Represents components parts C. Lorenz curve Ill. Shows changes in data relationship over a period D. Pie chart IV. Uses two quantitative variables Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-1,B-1,C -Ill,D-IV
A-Ill,B-1,C-IV, D-Il
A- I, B- ti, C- IV, D-1
A-IV,B-1H,C-1, D-Ill

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B. A-Ill,B-1,C-IV, D-Il

Option 2 gives the keyed pairing or order: A-Ill,B-1,C-IV, D-Il. Reconstruct the dates or associations in statistics and analysis before comparing the four sequences.

Question 31 of 34Original Question No.: 7Asked in: December 2023 - 13 December 2023, Shift II

The degree to which a test actually measures what it purports to measure is known as

Validity
Variance
Stability
Artifact

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A. Validity

The keyed response is option 1, “Validity”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 32 of 34Original Question No.: 34Asked in: June 2024 - 3 September 2024, Shift II

Which of the following is a common reliability coefficient?

Correlation coefficient
Croubach's Alpha
Standard Deviation
Mahalanobis Distance

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B. Croubach's Alpha

The keyed response is option 2, “Croubach's Alpha”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 33 of 34Original Question No.: 27Asked in: June 2025 - 25 June 2025, 3-6 p.m.

Cronbach's Alpha uses the analysis of variance approach to assess:

Mean score of two groups
The effects of independent variable on a sample
The sources of variance between two variables
Internal consistency of a measure

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D. Internal consistency of a measure

The keyed response is option 4, “Internal consistency of a measure”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

Question 34 of 34Original Question No.: 51Asked in: June 2025 - 25 June 2025, 3-6 p.m.

Sampling error indicates:

Average difference of scores from the population mean
How close the data from a sample are to the population mean
The degree to which a result can be reproduced by another research
Measurements and analysis vary inconsistently from one study to another

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B. How close the data from a sample are to the population mean

The keyed response is option 2, “How close the data from a sample are to the population mean”. It directly fits the factual or conceptual cue in this statistics and analysis question; use the other choices as contrast points during revision.

References

Question papers and answer keys: UGC NET Mass Communication and Journalism — December 2006 Paper II; December 2007 Paper II; June 2007 Paper II; June 2009 Paper II; June 2010 Paper II; June 2011 Paper II; December 2012 Paper III; December 2013 Paper III; June 2013 Paper III; September 2013 Paper II; December 2014 Paper III; December 2015 Paper III; June 2015 Paper III; July 2016 Paper III; September 2016 Paper III; June 2020 cycle - 24 September 2020, Shift II; December 2023 - 13 December 2023, Shift II; June 2024 - 3 September 2024, Shift II; June 2025 - 25 June 2025, 3-6 p.m..
Wimmer, Roger D., and Joseph R. Dominick. Mass Media Research: An Introduction. 9th ed.
Jensen, Klaus Bruhn, and Nicholas W. Jankowski, editors. A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research.
Perry, David K. Theory and Research in Mass Communication: Contexts and Consequences.
University Grants Commission. UGC NET syllabus listing, Subject Code 63: Mass Communication and Journalism.