Statistics Paper IV 2017 IES/ISS
- Year 2017
- Conducted By Indian Economic Service and Indian Statistical Service Examination
- Questions 14
- Maximum Marks 200
- Duration Three Hours
- Languages English
Exam Details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Examination | Statistics Paper IV |
| Year | 2017 |
| Conducting Body | Indian Economic Service and Indian Statistical Service Examination |
| Paper | Statistics |
| Subject | Statistics |
| Duration | Three Hours |
| Maximum Marks | 200 |
| Number of Questions | 14 |
| Question Type | Mixed descriptive and quantitative |
The OCR pages describe Statistics Paper IV (2017) for the Indian Economic Service and Indian Statistical Service examinations. Page 1 provides exam metadata: paper code ZLX-F-STS, duration three hours, maximum marks 200, and instruction to answer in English. Page 2 contains Section A problems in Operations Research and Reliability, including a newspaper-seller problem solved by EOL criterion, a transportation problem, a queueing model, and reliability theory involving coherent systems and Weibull distribution. The JSON repairs organize the content with numbered questions, preserving line breaks and hierarchy for SEO use while avoiding any invented content beyond OCR-repaired text.
Major Topics Covered
- Operations Research
- Reliability Engineering
- Queueing Theory
- Transportation Problem
- Probability
- Weibull Distribution
- Hazard Function
- Coherent System
- Exponential Distribution
- Poisson Process
- M/M/1 Queue
- EOL Criterion
- Linear Programming
- Optimization
- Inventory Theory
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Statistical Inference
- Probability Distributions
- Service Time
- Idle Time
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Instructions
- There are FOURTEEN questions divided under SEVEN Sections.
- Candidate has to choose any TWO Sections and attempt the questions therein.
- The number of marks carried by a question/part is indicated against it.
- Unless otherwise mentioned, symbols and notations have their usual standard meanings.
- Assume suitable data, if necessary, and indicate the same clearly.
- Attempts of questions shall be counted in sequential order.
- Unless struck off, attempt of a question shall be counted even if attempted partly.
- Any page or portion of the page left blank in the QCA Booklet must be clearly struck off.
- Normal Distribution and Chi-square Distribution Tables are given at the end.
- Answers must be written in ENGLISH only. \bf 1
Questions (page 2)
Q1. 1. (a) A newspaper boy has the following probabilities of selling a magazine: No. of copies sold t = 10, 11, 12, 13,
Q2. 2.
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