Merlin B Joseph, Asst. Prof.

, BIMS RM

Handout on
Testing of Hypothesis
1. 100 students were classified according to their brilliance and community. B1 and B2
denote two levels of brilliance and A1, A2 & A3 denote three communities. Examine
whether there is any relation between community and brilliance.
Brilliance Level
B1 B2 Total
A1 215 135 350
Community A2 325 175 500
A3 60 90 1000
Total 600 400

2. The following data was obtained in an investigation about the effect of vaccination for
small pox.
Vaccinated Not Vaccinated Total
Attacked 3 12 15
Not Attacked 8 5 13
Total 11 17 18
Examine whether vaccination is effective in preventing small pox?

3. It is claimed that more IAS selections are made from cities rather than rural places. On
the basis of the following data do you uphold the claim?
Selection Not Selected
From Cities 500 200
From rural places 100 30

4. An automobile manufacturing firm is to bring out a new model of the car. A study was
carried out to find how it appeals to the various age groups of people during a preview
so that they can plan their advertisement strategy accordingly. Use proper statistical test
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to determine whether the model appeals to a particular age group or equally to all age
groups.
Age Groups
Below 20 20 - 39 40 - 59 Over 60
Liked the
200 90 60 70
car
Disliked
50 30 30 70
the car

5. In a sample study the tea habit in two towns following data observed in a sample of size
100 each.
Town A : 51% persons were male, 31% were tea drinkers and 19% are male tea drinkers
Town B : 46% persons were male, 26% were tea drinkers and 17% are male tea drinkers
Is there any association between Gender and Tea drinking habits? If so in which town it
is greater?

6. There are 800 graduates in a village, out of which 320 are female and 80 women are
unemployed. Also given that 150 male graduates are employed. Test whether
employment is based on gender.

7. The following table gives data regarding election of candidates to an office.

Economic Status
Rich Poor Total
Favourable 50 155 205
Attitude
Not
towards 90 110 200
Favourable
Election
Total 140 265 405
Is attitude towards election influenced by economic status of workers?
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8. A sample analysis of an examination result of 200 students were made. It was found that
46 students had failed, 68 secured 3rd class, 62 secured 2nd class and the rest were
placed in the first division. Are these figures commensurate with the general
examination result which is in the ratio 2:3:3:2 for various categories respectively?

9. The divisional manager of a chain of retail stores believes the average number of
customers entering each of the five stores in his division weekly is same. In a given
week, a manager reports the following number of customers in his stores : 3000, 2960,
3100, 2780, 3160. Test the divisional manager’s belief at a 10% level of significance?

Variance Test

10. A plant has installed two machines producing polythene bags. During the installation,
the manufacturer of the machine has stated that the capacity of the machine is to
produce 20 bags in a day. Owing to various factors such as different operators working
on these machines, raw materials etc. there is a variation in the number of bags
produced at the end of the day. The company researcher has taken a random sample of
bags produced in 10 days for machine 1 and 13 days for machine 2 respectively. The
following data given the number of units of an item produced on a sampled day by the 2
machines.
Machine 1 →18, 19, 19, 18, 17, 19, 18, 19, 18, 19
Machine 2 → 16, 17, 17, 17, 16, 18, 16, 16, 17, 17, 16, 16, 17
How can the researcher determine whether the variances are from the same population
or it comes from different populations? (Take α = 0.05)

11. Samples from two makers of ball bearings are calculated and their diameters (in Inches)
are measured, as follows.
Country A, n1 = 80, S1 = 0.0395
Country B, n2 = 120, S2 = 0.0428
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Assuming that diameter of the bearings from both companies are normally distributed.
Test the claim that there is no significant difference in variance of the diameter between
two companies.

12. Test whether the following two populations have the same variances
A : 12, 11, 10, 9, 13, 12, 15, 14, 16
B : 21, 25, 23, 22, 21, 26, 27, 32, 31

13. The random samples were drawn from two populations and their values are :
A :, 66, 67, 75, 76, 82, 84, 88, 90, 92
B : 64, 66, 74, 78, 82, 85, 87, 92, 93, 95, 97
Test whether the two populations have the same variance @ 5% level of significance.

One way Anova

14. The following figures relate to production in kilograms of three varieties A,B & C of
wheat sown in 12 plots.
A B C
14 14 18
16 13 16
18 15 16
22 19
20
15. Achievement test scores of trainees under three methods of instruction are given below
Scores
A 82 71 73 68 81
B 90 86 88 76 85
C 85 76 84 71 84
At 5% level of significance verify whether the three samples means are the same?
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16. Set a table of analysis of variance for the following data

Variety
Plots A B C D
1 200 230 250 300
2 190 270 300 270
3 240 150 145 180
Test whether the varieties are different?

17. Three varieties of seeds G1, G2 & G3 are treated with 4 different fertilizers F1, F2, F3 &
F4. The yields of goods per acre are as below.
Varieties of Goods
Fertilizer
G1 G2 G3 Total
Treatment
F1 55 72 47 174
F2 64 66 53 183
F3 58 57 74 189
F4 59 57 58 174
Total 236 252 232 720
Set up a one way Anova table and work out F- Ratios in respect of the above, Are the F-
Ratios Significant?

Two way Anova

18. A factory manager wishing to but machines for a certain operation in a production
process, obtains one machine from each of the 4 companies making such machines and
put three men of whom works one day on each of the 4 machine in a random order. The
resulting units of production are given below
Workers
Machines W1 W2 W3
M1 62 63 64
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M2 64 66 68
M3 67 67 70
M4 68 69 69
Discuss the significance of variance of production among the different types of machines and
also among the workers

19. The following data present the no. of units of production per day turned out by 5
different workers using 4 different types of machines
Machine Type
Workers A B C D
1 44 38 47 36
2 46 40 52 43
3 34 36 44 32
4 43 38 46 33
5 38 42 49 39
a) Test whether the mean productivity is the same for the different machine type?
b) Test whether the 5 men differ with respect to mean productivity?

20. A tea company appoints four salesmen P,Q,R & S and observes their sales in three seasons –
Monsoon, Winter and Summer. The figure in Lakhs are given in the following table
Salesman
Total
Season P Q R S
Monsoon 62 64 67 68 261
Winter 63 66 67 69 265
Summer 64 68 70 69 271
a) Do the salesmen significantly differ in their performance?
b) Is there Significant difference between seasons?
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23. The sales volume generated by five salesmen in different regions are given below:
Salesman
Region S1 S2 S3 S4 S5
North 24 30 26 23 32
Central 22 32 27 25 31
South 23 28 25 22 32
Test whether there is any significant difference among the performances of
salesmen and among the sales of the regions at 5% level of significance