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.
Probability, Statistics & Linear Programming
False — Two fair coin tosses: A = first is heads, B = second is heads, C = the two agree
False — The standard Cauchy distribution
False — with ~ Exp(1)
False — X ~ with probability ½ independent of
False — The typewriter sequence on [0,1]
False — The two-state chain that swaps deterministically (period 2)
False — or for Uniform
False — ̂ for , or for Uniform
False — vs for
False — t = under the convention th quantile
False — with
False — X ~ N(0,1) and with independent
False — A population with a periodic pattern of period k, sampled every k-th unit