Statistics Yue March 15, 2011

Assignment #1, Due 2011/03/29

1. Allied Corporation is trying to sell its new machines to Ajax. Independent random
samples were taken from both machines. You are given the following results
New Machine Old Machine
Sample Mean 25 23
Sample Variance 27 8
Sample Size 25 36

(a) Using = 0.05, test if the variance of the new machines equal 20.
(b) Using = 0.05, check if the variances of the new machines and the old
machines are the same.

2. Test scores of two independent samples of students from UA and UB on a national

examination are given below.
UA UB
82 70
90 80
65 60
83 90
80 75
(a) State the null and the alternative hypotheses.
(b) Determine the test statistic.
(c) At 95% confidence, test to determine if there is a significant difference
between the variances of the two populations.

3. In class we mentioned that the chi-square test is one of the frequently used
methods and many tests are related (or equivalent) to this test. Suppose we tossed
a coin 400 times and observed Head 180 times. We want to know if this is a fair
coin with a significance level = 0.01.
(a) Using the Z-test to check if p = 0.5.
(b) Repeat (a) but use the chi-square instead.

4. A professor believes that the final examination scores in statistics are normally
distributed. A sample of 40 final scores has been taken, shown as below.

55 85 72 99 48 71 88 70 59 98 80 74 93 85
82 90 71 83 60 95 77 84 73 63 72 95 79 51
76 81 78 65 75 87 86 70 80 64 74 85

(a) State the null and alternative hypotheses.

(b) Compute the test statistic for the goodness of fit test.
 (c) The hypothesis is to be tested at the 5% level. What is the critical value from
the table for the test?
(d) What do you conclude about the distribution of final examination scores?

5. A department store believes that telephone calls come into the switchboard at 10-
minute intervals, according to a Poisson distribution. Before ordering new
equipment, the store wishes to determine whether the Poisson model is a valid
assumption. Records on the number of calls received were kept for a random
selection of 150 ten-minute intervals. The results are shown below.

Number of Calls Frequency

0 5
1 18
2 24
3 30
4 32
5 13
6 20
7 8
150

(a) What is the average number of calls during these ten-minute intervals?
(b) Generate the expected number of calls using a Poisson probability table.
(Please group as : (0,1),2,3,4,5,6,7 )
(c) Give the null and alternative hypotheses for the appropriate test.
(d) Determine the number of degrees of freedom for this test.
(e) Calculate the value of the test statistic.
(f) Determine the p-value and state whether or not the Poisson model is a
valid model for the phone calls?

6. The data below represents the fields of specialization for a randomly selected
sample of undergraduate students. Test to determine whether there is a significant
difference in the fields of specialization between regions of the country. Use a .05
level of significance.
Northeast Midwest South West Total
Business 54 65 28 93 240
Engineering 15 24 8 33 80
Liberal Arts 65 84 33 98 280
Fine Arts 13 15 7 25 60
Health Sciences 3 12 4 21 40
150 200 80 270 700
(a) State the critical value of the chi-square random variable for this test of
independence of categories.
(b) Calculate the value of the test statistic.
(c) What is the conclusion for this test?