Set A Final Exam

General Instructions:
Analyze the following problems using the format:
 I. The problem
 II. The Hypotheses (Null & Alternative)
 III. Test statistics
 IV. Data Analysis (Computer Printout)
 V. Discussion/Interpretation/Implication
Submit in handwritten format. Use short bond paper.

1. The scores of a random sample of 8 students on a physics test are as follows: 60, 62, 67, 69, 70, 72, 75, and
78. Test to see if the sample mean is significantly different from 65 at the .05 level. Report the t and p values.
The researcher realizes that she accidentally recorded the score that should have been 76 as 67. Are these
corrected scores significantly different from 65 at the .05 level?

2. A study of the effect of caffeine on muscle metabolism used eighteen male volunteers who each underwent
arm exercise tests. Nine of the men were randomly selected to take a capsule containing pure caffeine one hour
before the test. The other men received a placebo capsule. During each exercise the subject's respiratory
exchange ratio (RER) was measured. (RER is the ratio of CO2 produced to O2 consumed and is an indicator of
whether energy is being obtained from carbohydrates or fats).The question of interest to the experimenter was
whether, on average, caffeine changes RER.
The RER(%) results were as follows:
Placebo: 105, 119, 100, 97, 96, 101, 94, 95, 98
Caffeine : 96, 99, 94, 89, 96, 93, 88, 105, 88.

3. Weights of 9 students (in lbs) before and after a month-long training schedule are given below. Test if the
mean weight after training is smaller than the mean weight before training.
pre = 124, 152, 129, 144, 150, 152, 138, 161, 140
post =133, 145, 131, 150, 164, 132, 130, 156, 141

4. A (hypothetical) experiment is conducted on the effect of alcohol on perceptual motor ability. Ten subjects
are each tested twice, once after having two drinks and once after having two glasses of water. The two tests
were on two different days to give the alcohol a chance to wear off. Half of the subjects were given alcohol first
and half were given water first. The scores of the 10 subjects are shown below. The first number for each subject
is their performance in the "water" condition. Higher scores reflect better performance. Test to see if alcohol had
a significant effect. Report the t and p values.
Water : 16, 15, 11, 20, 19, 14, 13, 15, 14, 16
Alcohol: 13, 13, 10, 18, 17, 11, 10, 15, 11, 16

5. In a study of the cognitive capacities of nonhuman primates, 19 monkeys of the same age were randomly
divided into two groups of 10 and 9. The groups were trained using two different teaching methods to recollect
an acoustic stimulus. The monkeys’ scores on a subsequent test is given below:
Method 1: 167, 149, 137, 178, 179, 155, 164, 104, 151, 150
Method 2: 98, 127, 140, 103, 116, 105, 100, 95, 131.
Analyze the data to test if one method works better than the other. What assumptions do you need to make in
your analysis? How can you argue for these assumptions?

6. Two types of smudge pots were tested for use to protect orchards from frost. A grapefruit grower
wants to compare them in terms of how long they burn before dying out. Two samples of burning
times for 10 smudge pots each are recorded below. It is desired to test whether or not there is a
difference between mean burning times for the two types of smudge pot. The burning times (in
minutes) were:
Type 1: 612 583 629 595 653 596 624 564 576 593
Type 2: 592 607 696 686 680 669 697 729 694 662
(i) Assume that the data behave as if they were two independent random samples from two
different normal populations with the same variance. State the appropriate null and alternative
hypothesis, and test the null hypothesis at alpha=0.05. What is the resulting P-value? (Hint::
The first sample has mean 602.50 and sample standard deviation 26.99. The second sample has
mean 671.20 and sample standard deviation 42.06. )
(ii) What test statistic did you use? What is its distribution under the null hypothesis?
(iii) Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference in mean burning time between the two types
of pot.

7. It is assumed that achievement test scores should be correlated with student's classroom performance. One
would expect that students who consistently perform well in the classroom (tests, quizes, etc.) would also
perform well on a standardized achievement test (0 - 100 with 100 indicating high achievement). A teacher
decides to examine this hypothesis. At the end of the academic year, she computes a correlation between the
students achievement test scores (she purposefully did not look at this data until after she submitted students
grades) and the overall g.p.a. for each student computed over the entire year. The data for her class are provided
below.
Achievement G.P.A. Achievement G.P.A. 1. Compute the correlation coefficient.
98 3.6 84 1.7 2. What does this statistic mean concerning the
96 2.7 79 3.1 relationship between achievement test performance
94 3.1 75 2.6 and g.p.a.?
88 4.0 72 2.9 3. What percent of the variability is accounted for by
91 3.2 86 2.4 the relationship between the two variables and what
77 3.0 85 3.4 does this statistic mean?
86 3.8 71 2.8 4. What would be the slope and y-intercept for a
regression line based on this data?
71 2.6 93 3.7
5. If a student scored a 93 on the achievement test,
59 3.0 90 3.2
what would be their predicted G.P.A.? If they scored
63 2.2 62 1.6 a 74? 88?

8. Fill in the missing quantities in the following ANOVA Summary Table:

Source SS df MS F ratio
A 330 3 ? ?
Error ? ? 15
Total 630 ?
i. In the above analysis, how many levels of the independent variable were there?
ii. How many participants were there in total?
iii. Assuming that there were an equal number of participants in each group, how many were tested in each
condition?