NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY

Center of Excellence in higher Education

The first private university in Bangladesh
School of Business and Economics
Department of Management
Summer Semester 2021
Mid II Examination
Course: BUS 173 (Applied Statistics)
Time: 1.15 hour Total Marks: 25
Answer all the questions

Q1. A private agency claims that the special crash program it offers significantly increases the writing
speed of the office secretaries. The following table gives the writing speeds of seven secretaries
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before and after they attended this course.
Before 75 72 85 90 65 70 77
After 80 75 93 97 70 65 83
Using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test at 5% significance level, can you conclude that attending this
course increases the writing speed of secretaries? Mention all formulae and necessary steps. Assume
that the population of paired differences has a normal distribution.

Q2. Consider the following table as an example of a possible data set of the people in Bangladesh.
Heart-disease
Yes No Total
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Yes 12 18 30
Smoking
No 8 62 70
Total 20 80 100
Conduct appropriate test of hypothesis at 1% level of significance mentioning all necessary formula
and steps.

Q3. Suppose we are interested to compare five population means considering samples of size four from
each population.
(a) Write down appropriate null and alternative hypotheses.
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(b) Fill in the blanks with necessary explanations in the following ANOVA table:
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Sources DF SS MS F-value
Between ? 6000 ? ?
Within ? ? 500
Total ?

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