University of the Philippines Los Banos - MS/PhD Statistics

Philippines · UPLB Institute of Statistics · pg · unverified source

10practice questions written to this syllabus
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Format

Admission by application (grades, recommendations); no national entrance exam.

Sections

Over the years

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Subjects this exam draws on

Statistical Ecology, Environmental & Fisheries Statistics10 questions

Five practice questions, worked

Original questions written to this exam's published syllabus and pattern. Not past papers.

1. As the negative binomial parameter k becomes very large, the distribution approaches:

  1. The normal with variance 1
  2. The uniform
  3. The geometric
  4. The Poisson
Answer and working

D. The Poisson

Variance x̄ + x̄²/k tends to x̄.

Statistical Ecology, Environmental & Fisheries Statistics · Spatial patterns: random, clumped and regular; dispersion indices

2. In point (Bitterlich) sampling, trees are selected with probability proportional to:

  1. Height
  2. Age
  3. Basal area
  4. Crown width
Answer and working

C. Basal area

Larger trees are counted from further away.

Statistical Ecology, Environmental & Fisheries Statistics · Forest inventory: plot sampling, point sampling and volume estimation

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