Câu hỏi: The numerical score assigned to the credit rating of a bond is best described as what type of number?

A. Continuous

B. Cardinal

C. Ordinal

D. Nominal

Câu 1: Suppose that we wanted to sum the 2007 returns on ten shares to calculate the return on a portfolio over that year. What method of calculating the individual stock returns would enable us to do this?

A. Simple

B. Continuously compounded

C. Neither approach would allow us to do this validly

D. Either approach could be used and they would both give the same portfolio return

Câu 2: Which of the following is NOT correct with regard to the p-value attached to a test statistic?

A. p-values can only be used for two-sided tests

B. It is the marginal significance level where we would be indifferent between rejecting and not rejecting the null hypothesis

C. It is the exact significance level for the test

D. Given the p-value, we can make inferences without referring to statistical tables

Câu 3: The type I error associated with testing a hypothesis is equal to:

A. One minus the type II error

B. The confidence level

C. The size of the test

D. The size of the sample

Câu 4: Which of the following statements is correct concerning the conditions required for OLS to be a usable estimation technique?

A. The model must be linear in the parameters

B. The model must be linear in the variables

C. The model must be linear in the variables and the parameters

D. The model must be linear in the residuals

Câu 5: Which one of the following is NOT an assumption of the classical linear regression model?

A. The explanatory variables are uncorrelated with the error terms

B. The disturbance terms have zero mean

C. The dependent variable is not correlated with the disturbance terms

D. The disturbance terms are independent of one another

Câu 6: Consider an increase in the size of the test used to examine a hypothesis from 5% to 10%. Which one of the following would be an implication?

A. The probability of a Type I error is increased

B. The probability of a Type II error is increased

C. The rejection criterion has become more strict

D. The null hypothesis will be rejected less often