Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for Planners

What is the most common method of data collection in quantitative research?

• Interviews

• Focus groups

• Observation

• Surveys/questionnaires

When MOUSE is PNUFT then CLOCK is ?

• MOLMD

• DMODL

• MDOLD 

• LODOM

Increasing the sample size has the following effect upon the sampling error?

• It increases the sampling error

• It reduces the sampling error

• It has no effect on the sampling error

• All of the above

Out of these, which of the sample population is separated into various strata, and the sample of one is taken from each strata?

• 1. snowball sampling

• • census sampling 

• • quota sampling

• • stratified sampling

• Which of the following statements is true about the regression line?

• 1. A regression line is also known as the line of the average relationship

• 1. A regression line is also known as the estimating equation

• 1. A regression line is also known as the prediction equation

• 1. All of the above

• The independent variable is used to explain the dependent variable in ________.

• 1. Linear regression analysis

• 1. Multiple regression analysis

• 1. Non-linear regression analysis

• 1. None of the above

While wandering in jungle, King Dushyant married Shankuntala as narrated in the "Abhigyan Shankuntalam". He gave her royal ring which could serve her identity when she would come to meet him, in future. However, she had lost the ring while going to meet him. When she arrived at Dushyant's palace, he failed to recognise her as she did not have the ring.

 

Which of the following statistical error King Dushyant had committed in this narrative?

• Type 1 Error

• Type 2 Error

• Sampling Error

• Non Sampling Error

An investigator commits type II error when he/she

• rejects a null hypothesis when it is true

• accepts a null hypothesis when it is true

• accepts a null hypothesis when it is false

• rejects a null hypothesis when it is false

Identify the correct sequence of a typical four step travel demand forecasting process from the following.

• Route Assignment-> Trip Generation -> Modal Split -> Trip Distribution

• Trip Generation -> Trip Distribution -> Modal Split -> Route Assignment

• Trip Distribution -> Route Assignment-> Trip Generation -> Modal Split

• Modal Split -> Route Assignment-> Trip Generation -> Trip Distribution

Gravity model for trip distribution is based on _______________________________.

• Einstein's theory of general relativity

• Coulomb's law of inverse square

• Newton's law of universal gravitation

• All of the above