HW3

Due on 9/29/2010
You can either turn in a hard copy of your solution in class or upload an electronic copy through the
blackboard or email it to your TA before the beginning of the class on the due date.

1. 12.3, 12.9 a, b, c, 12.13, 12.15

2. 12.25, 12.29
3. 12.55, 12.78, 12.83, 11.11a

12.3 Use the following contingency table:

____________A B Total
1 20 30 50
2 30 45 75
Total 50 75 125

a. Find the expected frequency for each cell.

b. Compare the observed and expected frequencies for each cell.
c. Compute X2STAT. Is it significant at α = 0.05?

12.9 Where people turn to for news is different for various age groups. Suppose that a study conducted
on this issue (extracted from P. Johnson, “Young People Turn to the Web for News,” USA Today,
March 23, 2006, p. 9D) was based on 200 respondents who were between the ages of 36 and 50 and
200 respondents who were above age 50. Of the 200 respondents who were between the ages of 36 and
50, 82 got their news primarily from newspapers. Of the 200 respondents who were above age 50, 104
got their news primarily from newspapers.

a. Construct a 2 x 2 contingency table.

b. Is there evidence of a significant difference in the proportion who get their news primarily from
newspapers between those 36 to 50 years old and those above 50 years old? (Use α = 0.05)
c. Determine the p-value in (a) and interpret its meaning.

12.13 Use the following contingency table:

____________A B C Total
1 20 30 25 75
2 30 20 25 75
Total 50 50 50 150

a. Compute the expected frequencies for each cell.

b. Compute X2STAT. Is it significant at α = 0.05?
c. If appropriate, use the Marascuilo procedure and α = 0.05 to determine which groups are
different.
12.15 The health-care industry and consumer advocacy groups are at odds over the sharing of a
patient’s medical records without the patient’s consent. The health-care industry believes that no
consent should be necessary to openly share data among doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and insurance
companies.
Suppose a study is conducted in which 600 patients are randomly assigned, 200 each, to three
“organizational groupings”--- insurance companies, pharmacies and medical researchers. Each patient
is given material to read about advantages and disadvantages concerning the sharing of medical
records within the assigned “organizational grouping.” Each patient is then asked “would you object to
the sharing of your medical records with…” and the results are recorded in the cross-classification
table below.

OBJECT TO SHARING __ORGANIZATIONAL GROUPING

INFORMATION Insurance Pharmacies Research
Yes 40 80 90
No 160 120 110

a. Is there evidence of a difference in objection to sharing information among the organizational

groupings? (Use α = 0.05)
b. Compute the p-value and interpret its meaning.
c. If appropriate, use the Marascuilo procedure and α = 0.05 to determine which groups are
different.

12.25 Where people turn to for news is different for various age groups. A study indicated where
different age groups primarily get their news:

________AGE GROUP______
MEDIA Under 36 36-50 50+
Local TV 107 119 133
National TV 73 102 127
Radio 75 97 109
Local newspaper 52 79 107
Internet 95 83 76

At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of a significant relationship between the age group
and where people primarily get their news? If so, explain the relationship.

12.29 Two candidates for governor participated in a televised debate. A political pollster recorded the
preferences of 500 registered voters in a random sample prior to and after the debate:

______PREFERENCE AFTER DEBATE____

PREFERENCE PRIOR Candidate Candidate
TO DEBATE A B Total
Candidate A 269 21 290
Candidate B 36 174 210
Total 305 195 500

a. At the 0.01 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference in the proportion of the voters
who favor Candidate A prior to and after the debate?
b. Compute the p-value in (a) and interpret its meaning.

12.55 A vice president for marketing recruits 20 college graduates for management training. The 20
individuals are randomly assigned, 10 each to one of two groups. A “traditional” method of training
(T) is used in one group, and an “experimental” method (E) is used in the other. After the graduates
spend six months on the job, the vice president ranks them on the basis of their performance, from 1
(worst) to 20 (best), with the following results (stored in the file Testrank):

T 1 2 3 5 9 10 12 13 14 15
E 4 6 7 8 11 16 17 18 19 20

Is there evidence of a difference in the median performance between the two methods? (Use α = 0.05)

12.78 What is the upper-tail critical value from the chi-square distribution if you use the Kruskal-
Wallis rank test for comparing the medians in six populations at the 0.01 level of significance?

12.83 The following data (stored in the file CDyield) represent the nationwide highest yield of
different types of accounts (extracted from Bankrate.com, March 6, 2007):

Money Six-Month One-Year 2.5-Year Five-Year

Market CD CD CD CD_____
5.21 5.50 5.41 5.35 5.35
5.19 5.44 5.40 5.25 5.30
5.20 5.40 5.40 5.20 5.25
5.16 5.40 5.40 5.20 5.25
5.12 5.39 5.39 5.15 5.22

a. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference in the median yields of the
different accounts?
b. Compare the results of (a) with those of Problem 11.11 (a) on page 459.

11.11 The following data (stored in the file CDyield) represent the nationwide highest yield of
different types of accounts (extracted from Bankrate.com, March 6, 2007):

Money Six-Month One-Year 2.5-Year Five-Year

Market CD CD CD CD_____
5.21 5.50 5.41 5.35 5.35
5.19 5.44 5.40 5.25 5.30
5.20 5.40 5.40 5.20 5.25
5.16 5.40 5.40 5.20 5.25
5.12 5.39 5.39 5.15 5.22

a. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there evidence of a difference in the mean yields of the
different accounts?