SLT Exercise

Hypothesis Testing
PGDQM-2009

Prepared By
Mahesh Hegde
Mahindra Institute of Quality
 SLT Exercise
A upcoming Quality Management Institute is aiming to become one of the best
institute in the world in providing QM training and implementation support. The
institute conducts various training programs. PGDQM is the flagship program of the
institute which runs for 8 weeks. Company is interested in some of the parameters
to check the effectiveness of the program. They are savings from participants
projects, project success rate, feedback %, examination score.
Different teams are working on improving each parameters. One of the parameters
taken by ABC group is to improve examination score. Some of the ways to improve
the same can be giving easy questions, emphasis on points that are going to come
in exam during training or recap, provide sample questions and give most of the
questions from the same etc.
But company is not interested in just increasing the exam score, actual interest is
to improve the understanding level of the participants, examination is just a
measure of the same.
Training is given to everybody is same. But team is interested to know why there is
variation in exam result?
Exercise
Team has identified several causes like
1) Years of experience of participant
2) Background of the participant department
3) Organization
4) Amount of effort taken by participant for exam
preparation
5) Prior knowledge of the topic
6) Attentiveness demonstrated in the class
Data collection of Y along with X
Operational definition for each parameter is identified
and data is collected as per operational definition
Data collected is shown in next slide
Data like department, years of experience, department
collected from participant profile form
Pretest data is collected from past data
Attentiveness is measured by faculty based on number
of questions & quality of questions asked by participant,
quality of key learning shared, participation in exercise,
answers given during quiz, completion of home work and
also through keen observation of participants
expressions during class
 Data for exam result (max 100 marks)
Roll Y - Exam X1 - X2- X4Study X5 Pretest X6 - Attentive
X3 Org
No Score Experience Dept hours Score in class
1 82 12 Q.A CEAT 18 22 YES
2 88 2 Q.A M&M AS 27 35 YES
3 61 12 Production M&M - FES 16 39 NO
4 73 8 Q.A Tata Motors 20 35 YES
5 73 5 Q.A Tata Motors 20 24 NO
6 82 2 Q.A M&M - FES 21 39 YES
7 67 22 Q.A Othes 24 29 NO
8 83 14 Production M&M - FES 22 41 YES
9 91 4 Production CEAT 28 42 YES
10 75 9 Q.A CEAT 16 40 YES
11 69 10 Production M&M AS 20 31 NO
12 79 3 Maintenance CEAT 29 42 NO
13 75 12 Q.A M&M AS 20 38 YES
14 68 13 Production M&M - FES 18 43 NO
15 76 13 Q.A M&M - FES 18 38 NO
16 71 11 Production CEAT 19 33 NO
17 74 1 Production Tata Motors 20 37 NO
18 79 9 Production M&M - FES 31 38 NO
19 65 11 Maintenance Othes 18 28 NO
20 74 12 Q.A M&M AS 22 36 NO
21 73 12 Q.A CEAT 20 30 NO
22 80 1 Production M&M AS 30 40 NO
23 73 15 Production Othes 20 42 NO
24 71 9 Q.A M&M AS 19 32 YES
25 74 12 Q.A M&M AS 19 37 YES
26 58 9 Maintenance Othes 20 35 NO
27 70 13 Q.A M&M - FES 19 31 NO
28 95 12 Q.A Tata Motors 30 50 YES
29 85 4 Production Tata Motors 22 50 YES
30 63 12 Maintenance CEAT 18 27 YES
Questions to be answered

Which are the parameters that are

significantly affecting?
What is the contribution (%) of these
causes?
What is the relation of exam marks with
parameters?
5 step methodology to be followed
Practical problem: For each parameter write
practical statement (question)
Statistical Problem: For each parameter
(cause) write Ho and Ha
Analysis: Identify the appropriate test, conduct
test, check P value
Statistical statement : Mention statement
Practical conclusion : Mention practical
conclusion
 Summary slide should
contain
Write down summary of your finding
What actions you suggest for improving
the examination score?
Mention key learning from the exercise
and put all details in PPT

Note: Everybody in SLT should be able to do this independently, one of them

will be called randomly and he should do analysis using Minitab in front of all
and should be able to explain