What is meant by project appraisal? Discuss the format of a project appraisal report.
See Answer →What do you understand by the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)? Explain the steps in Creating WBS.
See Answer →Explain the importance of the project crashing method in project planning. Discuss an example of a project crashing.
See Answer →Discuss the meaning and principles of participatory rural appraisal (PRA).
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What is meant by the project preparation? Explain the phases in the project preparation.
See Answer →What do you mean by the project? Discuss the nature of the agricultural project.
See Answer →In a class of Statistics, total number of students is 30. Select the linear and circular systematic random samples of 12 students. The age of 30 students is given below:
Age: 22 25 22 21 22 25 24 23 22 21 20 21 22 23 25 23 24 22 24 24 21 20
23 21 22 20 20 21 22 25
See Answer →The following data is the data pertaining to a feeding trial on sheep. Treatments
A: Grazing only
B: Grazing + Maize Supplements
C: Grazing + Maize + Protein Supplement P1
D: Grazing + Maize + Protein Supplement P2
E: Grazing + Maize + Protein Supplement P3
Layout and Wool Yield (100 gm) is given as:
| 32(D) | 33(E) | 30(C) | 28(B) | 24(A) |
| 51(C) | 45(D) | 41(A) | 45(E) | 29(B) |
| 41 (E) | 29 (A) | 24 (B) | 36 (D) | 35 (C |
| 38 (B | 39(C) | 42(E | 23(A) | 37(D) |
| 38(A | 24(B) | 21(D) | 29(C) | 26(E) |
Analyse the design with appropriate method and calculate the Critical Difference for the treatment mean yield
See Answer →For the given data the yield of the treatment 2 in 3rd block is missing. Estimate the missing value and analyse the data.
| Treatments | Blocks | |||
| I | II | III | IV | |
| 1 | 105 | 114 | 108 | 109 |
| 2 | 112 | 113 | Y | 112 |
| 3 | 106 | 114 | 105 | 109 |
A manurial trial with six levels of Farmyard Manure (FYM) was carried out in a randomised block design with 4 replications at the experimental station Junagarh with a new study the rate of decomposition of organic matters in soil and its synthetic capacity in soil on cotton crop. The yield per plot in kg for different levels of FYM and replications is given below:
Cotton Yield Per Plot (in Kg)
| Levels of FYM | Replications | |||
| I | II | III | IV | |
| 1 | 6.90 | 4.60 | 4.40 | 4.81 |
| 2 | 6.48 | 5.57 | 4.28 | 4.45 |
| 3 | 6.52 | 7.60 | 5.30 | 4.45 |
| 4 | 6.90 | 6.65 | 6.75 | 7.75 |
| 5 | 6.00 | 6.18 | 6.50 | 5.50 |
| 6 | 7.90 | 7.57 | 6.80 | 6.62 |
Carry out the Analysis of Variance test and draw the conclusions.
See Answer →In order to compare the mileage yields of 3 kinds of Gasoline, several tests were run, and the following results were obtained:
| Gasoline A: | 19 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 21 | 21 |
| Gasoline B: | 23 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 24 | 23 |
| Gasoline C: | 20 | 17 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 17 |
Carry out the Analysis of Variance test and test whether there is significant differences between the average mileage of 3 kinds of gasoline at 5% level of significance
See Answer →In a population of size N = 5, the values of the population characteristics are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, a sample of size 2 is drawn. Verify that is an unbiased estimate of
and
is equal to
A population consists of 10 villages with a total of 212 households. The second column of the accompanying table shows the number of households corresponding to each village. Select a PPS with replacement sample of 6 villages by using the Cumulative Total method:
| Village | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| No. of Households | 35 | 28 | 20 | 25 | 30 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 15 |
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A sample of 100 employees is to be drawn from a population of collages A and B. The population means and population mean squares of their monthly wages are given below:
| Village | Ni | ||
| Collage A | 400 | 60 | 20 |
| Collage B | 200 | 120 | 80 |
Draw the samples using Proportional and Neyman allocation techniques and compare. Obtain the sample mean and variances for the Proportional Allocation and SRSWOR for the given information. Then Find the percentage gain in precision of variances of sample mean under the Proportional Allocation over the that of SRSWOR.
See Answer →State whether the following statements are true or false and also give the reason in support of your answer:
(a)
(b) The total number of all possible samples of size 3 without replacement from a population of size 7 is 21.
(c) While analysing the data of a 5 × 5 Latin Square design the d.f. for ESS is equal to 16
(d) In a Two-way Analysis of Variance test with 5 observations per cell having 4 blocks and 4 treatments the degree of freedom for the total variation is 64.
(e) The probability of selection of a sample of n from the population by SRSWOR is 1/ N
See Answer →Briefly explain the general characteristics of a Bank. Describe the risk characteristics of a Bank and discuss the role of Management Control System in containing risk of a Bank.
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Explain the framework for performance measurement system and describe the various matrices used for performance measurement.
See Answer →Define 'Investment Centre. Why are investment centres established? Describe the different overall measures of effectiveness for determining the performance of investment centres and discuss their relative merits and demerits.
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What is a Responsibility Centre and why are responsibility centres established? Briefly explain each type of responsibility centre and describe what criteria would determine the designation of a responsibility centre?
See Answer →Explain the concept of 'Strategy'? Describe the BCG Model and Porter's Five Forces Model and discuss their application in formulating business strategies.
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