BES Tutorial Sample Solutions, S1/13

WEEK 13 TUTORIAL EXERCISES (To be discussed in the week starting

June 3)
1. It is claimed by a manufacturer that its new type of light bulb is subject
to less variability of bulb life. It is known that the former bulb type had
a standard deviation of life of 150 hours. To test this claim, a consumer
organization takes a sample of 41 of these new bulbs and measures
their lives, finding a standard deviation of bulb life of 140 hours.
Assuming light bulb lives are approximately normally distributed, test
the manufacturers claim at a 5% level of significance.


n = 41, s = 140


Under

150 ;

150

40
150

1
Decision rule:
Reject if

26.5093

Since calculated

40

140
150

34.84

26.5093

and conclude that the manufacturers claim of lower bulb

we do not reject
life variability is not supported by the data.

2. Given the information of Question 1 above, calculate a 95% confidence

interval for the variance of bulb life.

Since n = 41 and = 0.05 we have:

59.3417

24.4330

The confidence interval is then given by

1

40 140 40 140
,
59.3417 24.4330

13,211.6, 32,087.6

3. In a busy marketing consulting firm, 30% of the employees are aged
2029 years, 40% are aged 3039 years, 20% are aged 4049 years, and
10% are aged 50 years and over. The personnel manager of the firm is
interested in knowing whether age is a factor in the taking of sick days.
She takes a random sample of 100 sick days and finds the following
distribution of sick days by age group:

Age
No. of Sick Days
2029 years
26
3039 years
37
4049 years
24
50 years and over
13

Using these data, test at the = 0.05 level of significance the hypothesis
that age is not a factor in taking sick days.

:

If age is not a factor in taking sick days, then the expected proportion of the sick
days taken by a particular age group should be the same as the proportion of the
firms employees in that age group. We would have:

Age
2029 years
3039 years
4049 years
50 years and over

26

30
30

oi
26
37
24
13
100
37

ei
30
40
20
10
100

40
40

24

20
20

13

10
10

2.46
c1=41=3 and hence the critical value is

7.8147

. , we do not reject the null hypothesis that age is not a factor

Since
in the taking of sick days.

4. A public health researcher is interested in testing whether the level of

beer consumption of individuals is independent of their level of
cigarette consumption. A random sample of 1,000 individuals are
interviewed about their weekly consumption of beer and cigarettes,
yielding the following bivariate frequency distribution:

nil

nil
Cigarette 120
cons.
2160
>60

256
105
71
22

Beer consumption
13
410
glasses
glasses
68
54
110
87
56
25
26
17

Over 10
glasses
25
42
26
10

Given the data, perform a test of independence of beer and cigarette

consumption using a 5% significance level.

:






:








The expected cell frequencies are given in brackets in the following table.

nil

nil
256

(182.962)

120
105
Cig.
(156.176)
cons. 2160
71
(80.812)
>60
22
(34.05)
Col.
454
Total

Beer consumption
13
410
Over 10
Row
glasses
glasses
glasses
total
68
54
25
403
(104.78) (73.749) (41.509)
110
87
42
344
(89.44) (62.952) (35.432)
56
25
26
178
(46.28) (32.574) (18.334)
26
17
10
75
(19.5) (13.725)
(7.725)
260
183
103
1000

e.g.

403 454
1000

182.962

1
.

1
.

3 3
16.9190

Now the test statistic is given by

256 182.962
182.962

. , we reject
And since
consumption are not independent.

10 7.725
17.725

101.90

and conclude that beer and cigarette