CSIR NET Part C
Counterexample bank
Part C is won by knowing which tempting claims are false. 149 counterexamples; 86 free to read right now. Pick your subject below.
Knowing the claim is false is half of it. The mistakes that cost marks shows the wrong options candidates actually pick, and the reasoning slip behind each one.
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Tagged “statistics”
“A sufficient statistic is complete”
False — or for Uniform
“The Cramér–Rao bound is attained by the UMVUE”
“The MLE is unbiased”
False — ̂ for , or for Uniform
“The MLE is unique”
“A UMP test exists for every testing problem”
False — vs for
“Any interval of the form with a 90% quantile t is a 90% confidence interval”
False — t = under the convention th quantile
“OLS is the BLUE in every linear model”
False — with
“Every parameter in the one-way ANOVA model is estimable”
“If every marginal is normal then the vector is multivariate normal”
False — X ~ N(0,1) and with independent
“Systematic sampling is always at least as efficient as SRS”
False — A population with a periodic pattern of period k, sampled every k-th unit