Statistical Trivia

What type of graph is shown?

• Bar Graph

• Column Chart

• Histogram

• Pictograph

How many postgraduate programs does the UP School of Statistics offer?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Who is regarded as the “Father of Modern Statistics and Experimental Design”?

• John W. Tukey

• Frank Wilcoxon

• Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

• Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss

Which of the following is denoted by the lowercase Greek letter sigma?

• Sample Variance

• Summation

• Mean

• Population Standard Deviation

What prompted the beginnings of the development of probability theory?

• Foreign Trade Relations

• Gambling Games

• State Resources Allocation

• Quantum Mechanics

When was UP Variates founded?

• 1981

• 1987

• 1989

• 1990

Who is the first National Statistician of the Philippines?

• Dr. Lisa Grace S. Bersales

• Dr. Arsenio M. Balisacan

• Dr. Joselito R. Basilio

• Dr. Claire Dennis S. Mapa

1. Which theorem states that “given a sufficiently large sample size, the averages of randomly selected groups (samples) of data points taken from a population have an approximately normal distribution, whether the population is normally distributed or not.”?

• Chebyshev's Inequality

• Central Limit Theorem

• Gauss-Markov Theorem

• Law of Large Numbers

1. Who is the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society?

• Stella Cunliffe

• Alice Whittemore

• Florence Nightingale

• Kimberley Sellers

1. What was the initial name of the now-UP Diliman's School of Statistics when it was first established in December 1953?

• The Statistical Training Center

• Department of Statistics

• The Statistical Center

• Philippine Statistical Department