Measures of Central Tendency – Geography – UGC NET – Solved PYQs

1. Match the List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below. (SEPT 2013)

Codes

2. Analysis of variance (f-ratio test) can only be applied to data measured on (SEPT 2013)

(1) Interval scale
(2) Ratio scale
(3) Ordinal scale
(4) Nominal scale

3. Consider the following figures X and Y 

\(\frac{A{\displaystyle\frac{2\;cm}{RF\;1:2000}}B}X\)                    \(\frac{C{\displaystyle\frac{2\;cm}{RF\;1:10,00,000}}D}Y\)

Which of the following statements is correct? (DEC 2013)

(1) Fig X is small-scale and the distance between A and B is 40 meters
(2) Fig Y is large-scale and the distance between C and D is 4 km
(3) Fig X is large-scale and Fig Y is small-scale. The distances between A & B and C & D are 40 metres and 20 km respectively
(4) Fig X is large-scale and Fig Y is small-scale. The distance between A & B and C & D are equal

4. If the variability of rainfall is to be measured, which of the following techniques will be used? (DEC 2013)

(1) Mean Deviation
(2) Standard Deviation
(3) Coefficient of Variation
(4) Interquartile Range

5. Which of the following is not a supervised image classification technique? (DEC 2013)

(1) Parallelepiped classifier
(2) Minimum distance to mean classifier
(3) Neural network analysis
(4) Gaussian maximum likelihood classifier

6. Which one of the following is not a measure of central tendency? (DEC 2013)

(1) Arithmetic mean
(2) Mean deviation
(3) Median
(4) Mode

7. Which one of the following is a centrographic measure? (DEC 2013)

(1) Geometric mean
(2) Arithmetic mean
(3) Mean center
(4) Standard deviation

8. Which one of the following values of coefficient (r) is not correctly matched with degree of relationship correlation? (DEC 2013)

(1) +0.99 High
(2) +0.50 Moderate
(3) 0.01 Very low
(4) -0.99 Nil