Probability and Types of Data
- Previous year questions on Probability and Types of Data for NEET PG (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Postgraduate), from the Community Medicine section of the exam.
- Most questions here come from previous-year papers of Indian postgraduate medical entrance and licensing exams; where a paper and year are recorded the question carries them. The image-based questions are original vignettes written around an openly licensed figure, and were never asked in any exam.
- 25 live questions in Probability and Types of Data.
- 1 of 25 questions carries a verified exam year: 2017.
- Community Medicine is worth about 25 of 300 questions on the exam. See every subject’s weightage.
- Question set last updated 3 Sept 2026.
Q1.Which of the following is used to denote a continuous variable?
- ASimple bar
- BHistogram✓ Correct answer
- CPie diagram
- DMultiple bar
Q2.Mean and standard deviation can be worked out only if data is on
- ANominal scale
- BDichotomous scale
- CInterval/Ratio scale✓ Correct answer
- DOrdinal scale
Q3.APGAR scores of 30 children are recorded in a hospital and most of the readings are found to be 7 or above. What can you make out about this data distribution?
- APositively skewed data
- BNegatively skewed data✓ Correct answer
- CNormal distribution
- DSymmetrically skewed data
Q4.Child Pugh score put patients into three categories of Score A (<7), Score B (7-9) and Score C (10-15). The following is a type of which scale?
- ANominal
- BOrdinal✓ Correct answer
- CQuantitative
- DContinuous
Q5.All of these are continuous variables except:
- AHeight in cms
- BWeight in kg
- CBlood groups A. B. ABO✓ Correct answer
- DAge in years and months
Q6.Which is the best distribution to study the daily admission of head injury patients in a trauma care centre
- ANormal distribution
- BBinomial distribution
- CUniform distribution
- DPoisson distribution✓ Correct answer
Q7.Number of family member is a-
- AQualitative variable
- BDiscrete variable✓ Correct answer
- CContinuous variable
- DCategorial variable
Q8.Which of the following shows progresion of events against time -
- ABarchart
- BPie chart
- CHistogram
- DLine diagram✓ Correct answer
Q9.Secular trend is best demonstrated by
- ALine diagram✓ Correct answer
- BBar graph
- CStem leaf plot
- DBox and whisker plot
Q10.Low bih weight statistics of a hospital is best shown by-
- ABar chas✓ Correct answer
- BHistogram
- CPictogram
- DFrequency polygon
Answer key
Q1: B. Histogram; Q2: C. Interval/Ratio scale; Q3: B. Negatively skewed data; Q4: B. Ordinal; Q5: C. Blood groups A. B. ABO; Q6: D. Poisson distribution; Q7: B. Discrete variable; Q8: D. Line diagram; Q9: A. Line diagram; Q10: A. Bar chas.
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