WILCOXON SIGNED-RANK TEST EXERCISES QUESTION 1 Malina* reported the results of a study of weights of football players at the University

of Texas at Austin between 1899 and 1970. Suppose that the weights of a random sample of 15 football players during the past 10 years at another large state university are those shown in Table 2. Can we conclude that the median weight of the population from which this sample was drawn is greater than 163.5 pounds? Let = 0.05. What is the P value for this test?

Table 2: Weights of football player Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Weight 188.0 211.2 170.8 212.4 156.9 223.1 235.9 183.9 Player 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Weight 214.4 221.0 162.0 222.8 174.1 210.3 195.2

*Malina, Robert M., Comparison of the Increase in Body Size between 1899 and 1970 in a Specially Selected Group with That in The General Population. Amer. J. Phys. Anthropol., 37(1972), 135-142

QUESTION 2 Moore and Ogletree* investigated the readiness of pupils at the beginning of the first grade. They compared scores on a readiness test of pupils who had attended a Head Start program for a full year with the scores of those who had not. Suppose that a random sample of 20 pupils who had not attended a Head Start program achieved the scores on the readiness test shown in Table 3. Can we conclude that the median score of the population represented by this sample is less than 45.32? What is the P value for this test?

Table 3 Readiness test scores of pupils who did not attend a Head Start program Pupil 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Readiness Score 33 19 40 35 51 41 27 23 39 21 Pupil 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Readiness Score 41 31 46 51 34 37 36 55 52 32

*Moore, Ruth C., and Earl J. Ogletree, A Comparison of the readiness and Intelligence of First Grade Children with and without a Full Year of Head Start Training, Education, 93(1973), 266-270

QUESTION 3

Palmer* reports that, during a six-month period, new salespersons in an insurance company spent an average of 119 hours per month in the field. Suppose that for a random sample of 16 new salespersons from another company, we have the data shown in Table 4. Test the null hypothesis that the median of the population from which this sample was drawn is 119 hours. What is the P value? Table 4 Average number of hours per month spent in the field by new insurance salespersons during a six-month period

136 103 91

122 96

145 140 138 126 120 99

125 91

142 119 137

*Palmer, Alden, The Alden Palmer Letter, The Fraternal Monitor, 70(February 1960), 1819

LARGE SAMPLE APPROXIMATION QUESTION 1 On 32 occasions, these are the time recorded for a city employee had to wait for a bus to take him to works. 6.7 8.9 4.1 7.0 6.3 6.5 6.2 6.0 4.5 6.3 7.3 5.4 8.6 1.6 5.9 6.5 7.3 5.8 6.3 2.3 7.0 6.3 8.1 7.7 2.5 5.9 9.2 8.4 6.1 9.0 6.4 8.0

The median of the time taken is 6.0 minutes. Use Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test to see if we can conclude that the median was drawn is equal to 6.0 minutes. Let =0.05. Find P-value.

QUESTION 2 An educational researcher believes that the median number of faculty for proprietary (for-profit) colleges and universities is less than 150. The data provided list the number of faculty at a selected number of proprietary colleges and universities. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there sufficient evidence to reject his claim? 372 111 165 95 191 83 61 136 149 37 100 225 127 119 142 136 137 92 140 140 75 171 122 108 96

133 133 342 126 64 138 318 179 243 109

QUESTION 3

For a sports radio talk show, the total number of home runs hits by the players in the National League are shown as below. A researcher decided to use the home run leaders for a 40-year period as their data. Using = 0.05, can we conclude that the median hits represented by this sample is more than 44? What is the P-value for this test? 44 46 40 44 49 35 37 40 73 38 31 48 50 40 48 45 65 47 48 45 70 39 45 36 49 49 52 39 47 37 38 44 40 37 38 52 43 36 36 47