A Review of Chapters 17 and 18

Answers to Section Seven Exercises

A Review of Chapters 17 and 18

1. H0: Median  60 H1: Median > 60

The sample has 16 values above 60. From a binomial table (n = 20, p = 0.5) the probability of 16
or more incidences is 0.006. The null hypothesis is rejected. The median is greater than 60.

2. If chi-square is greater than 7.815, reject the null hypothesis.

(17  12.5) 2 (8  12.5) 2 (12  12.5) 2 (13  12.5) 2
2      3.28
12.5 12.5 12.5 12.5
Do not reject the null hypothesis. There is no favorite color.

3. At the 0.05 level, if H is greater than 5.991, reject the null hypothesis.

NE Ranks SE Ranks W Ranks

3645 4.5 3502 1 3547 2
3727 9 3645 4.5 3636 3
3772 14 3718 8 3659 6
3837 17 3746 12 3673 7
3873 19 3758 13 3728 10
3882 20 3845 18 3736 11
3894 21 3940 22 3788 15
4070 23 3802 16
4081 24
Sums 104.5 125.5 70
12 104.5 2
125.5 2
70 
2
H       3(24  1)  3.45
24(24  1)  7 9 8 
Do not reject the null hypothesis. There is no difference among the lengths.

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A Review of Chapters 17 and 18

CASE I

CENTURY NATIONAL BANK

Ho: There is no relationship between branch and whether the customer has a debit card.
H1: There is a relationship between branch and whether a customer has a debit card.
Reject if 2 > 7.815

Debit 1 2 3 4 Total
No 9 9 8 8 34
Yes 7 8 6 5 26
16 17 14 13 60

The computed value of 2 is 0.224, so Ho is not rejected. We cannot conclude that there is a relationship
between branch and whether a customer has a debit card.

CASE II

THOMAS TESTING LABS

Using the sign test: Ho:   0.50 H1:  > 0.50

Reject Ho if z value is greater than 1.65. There is one tie, so n is reduced from 25 to 24.
 = 24(0.5) = 12   24(0.5)(0.5)  2.4495
There are 16 cases where the number of errors increased
15.5  12
z  1.43 Do not reject Ho. The number of driving errors has not increased.
2.4495

Using the Wilcoxon test:

Ho: There is no difference in the number of errors.
H1: There are more errors with alcohol
With n = 24 and using the 0.05 significance level, Ho is rejected if T  91.
The sum of the negative differences is 70.5, so Ho is rejected. We conclude that there are more errors
with alcohol.

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PRACTICE TEST

Part I

1. nominal 2. at least 30 observations

3. two 4. 6
5. number of categories 6. dependent
7. binomial 8. b. comparing two or more independent samples
9. never 10. a and b

Part II
1. Ho: The proportions are as stated H1: The proportions are not as stated
Using a significance level of 0.05, reject Ho if 2 > 7.815

2 
120  130 2   40  40 2   30  20 2  10  10 2  5.769
130 40 20 10
Do not reject Ho. Proportions could be as declared.

2. Ho: No relationship between gender and book type

H1: There is a relationship between gender and book type
Using a significance level of 0.01, reject Ho if 2 > 9.21

2 
 250  197.3 2  100  140.2 2  190  202.5 2  130  182.7  2  170  129.8 2   200  187.5 2  54.8
197.3 140.2 202.5 182.7 129.8 187.5
Reject Ho. There is a relationship between gender and book type.

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3. Ho: The distributions are the same. H1: The distributions are not the same
Ho is rejected if H > 5.991

8:00 AM ranks 10:00 AM ranks 1:30 PM ranks

68 6 59 1.5 67 5
84 20 59 1.5 69 7
75 10.5 63 4 75 10.5
78 15.5 62 3 76 12.5
70 8 78 15.5 79 17
77 14 76 12.5 83 19
88 24 80 18 86 21.5
71 9 86 21.5
87 23

Sums 107 56 137

Count 8 7 9

12 1072 562 1372 

H     3( 25)  4.29
24 25  8 7 9 
Ho is not rejected. There is no difference in the three distributions.

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