What does the Rybczynski theorem postulate? Point out the important factors which could be analysed in the context of Rybczynski's theorem.
See Answer →Explain the causes behind the global financial crisis of 2008. What were its macroeconomic effects? What were the policy responses initiated by the U S government to combat the global financial crisis of 2008?
See Answer →Why do countries engage in Intra-Industry trade? Explain Intra-Industry trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated Commodities.
See Answer →Is trade still possible between two nations if they have identical production possibilities curves? Explain with the help of a diagram.
See Answer →Country A is a large country while Country B is a small country. Both countries decided to impose tariffs on their imports. What will be the impact of this decision on their producers, suppliers and economy as a whole? Explain with the help of diagrams.
See Answer →Describe the role that WTO plays in achieving sustainable development and protecting the environment.
See Answer →Discuss India’s transformation from GATT to WTO. What is India’s contribution to WTO concerning agriculture?
See Answer →) The marketing manager of a company recorded the number of mobiles sold quarterly for which are given in the following table:
| Year | Quarter | ||||
| 2018 | 48 | 41 | 60 | 65 | |
| 2019 | 58 | 52 | 68 | 74 | |
| 2020 | 60 | 56 | 75 | 78 | |
(i) Find the quarterly seasonal indexes for the mobile sold using the ratio to trend method.
(ii) Do seasonal forces significantly influence the sale of mobile? Comment.
(iii) Also find the deseasonalised values.
Consider the time series model
where
(i) Is this a stationary time series?
(ii) What are the mean and variance of the time series?
(iii) Calculate the autocorrelation function.
(iv) Plot the correlogram.
At a call centre, callers have to wait till an operator is ready to take their call. To monitor this process, 5 calls were recorded every hour for the 8-hour working day. The data below shows the waiting time in seconds:
| Time | Sample Number | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 9 a.m | 8 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 11 |
| 10 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 8 |
| 11 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
| 12 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 12 |
| 1 p.m. | 11 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 11 |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 11 |
| 3 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 10 |
| 4 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 7 |
(i) Use the data to construct control charts for mean and comments about the
process. If process is out of control, then calculate the revised control limits.
(ii) Construct the CUSUM chart when the process is under control and draw the conclusion about the process.
(iii) If the specification limits as the 8±2, then calculate the process capability index Cpk and impetrate the result.
(iv) Also find the percentage of calls lie outside the specification limits assuming that calls follow the normal distribution.
The failure data for 40 electronic components is shown below:
| Operating Time (in hours) | 0-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-20 | 20-25 | 25-30 |
| Number of Failures | 5 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Operating Time (in hours) | 30-35 | 35-40 | 40-45 | 45-50 | ≥50 | |
| Number of Failures | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Estimate the reliability, cumulative failure distribution, failure density and failure rate functions.
See Answer →A system has seven independent components and reliability block diagram of it shown as follows:
Find reliability of the system.
See Answer →An office supply company ordered a lot of 400 printers. When the lot arrives the company inspector will randomly inspect 12 printers. If more than three printers in the sample are non-conforming, the lot will be rejected. If fewer than two printers are nonconforming, the lot will be accepted. Otherwise, a second sample of size 8 will be taken. Suppose the inspector finds two non-conforming printers in the first sample and two in the second sample. Also AQL and LTPD are 0.05 and 0.10 respectively. Let incoming quality be 4%.
(i) What is the probability of accepting the lot at the first sample?
(ii) What is the probability of accepting the lot at the second sample?
A manufacturer of men’s jeans purchases zippers in lots of 500. The jeans manufacturer uses single-sample acceptance sampling with a sample size of 10 to determine whether to accept the lot. The manufacturer uses c = 2 as the acceptance number. Suppose 3% nonconforming zippers are acceptable to the manufacturer and 8% nonconforming zippers are not acceptable. Find
(i) Probability of accepting a lot of incoming quality 0.04.
(ii) Average outing quality (AOQ), if the rejected lots are screened and all defective zippers are replaced by non-defectives.
(iii) Average total inspection (ATI).
Differentiate between the autoregressive and moving average models of time series.
See Answer →State whether the following statements are True or False. Give reason in support of your answer:
(i) The R- chart is suitable when subgroup size is greater than 10.
(ii) In single sampling plan, if we increase acceptance number then the OC curve will be steeper.
(iii) If the effect of summer and winter is not constant on the sale of AC then we use the additive model of the time series.
(iv) If a researcher wants to find the relationship between today’s unemployment and that of 5 years ago without considering what happens in between then the partial autocorrelation is the better way in comparison to autocorrelation.
(v) A system has four components connected in parallel configuration with
reliability 0.2, 0.4, 0.5, 0.8. To improve the reliability of the system most, we
have to replace the component which reliability is 0.2.
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 |
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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:
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 |
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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 | 5.30 |
| 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.
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