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Testing Hypothesis

The document contains 7 problems related to hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Problem 1 asks to find the test statistic for a hypothesis test comparing the average age of students in a sample to a hypothesized value. Problem 2 asks to find the test statistic for a hypothesis test on sample data. Problem 3-4 ask to identify the correct null and alternative hypotheses for two hypothesis testing scenarios. Problem 5 asks to state the null and alternative hypotheses and conduct a hypothesis test on sample data about employee ages. Problem 6 asks similar questions for a hypothesis test on chocolate chips per cookie. Problem 7 asks to conduct a full hypothesis test to determine if a sample proportion is statistically significantly different from a hypothesized value.

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Testing Hypothesis

The document contains 7 problems related to hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. Problem 1 asks to find the test statistic for a hypothesis test comparing the average age of students in a sample to a hypothesized value. Problem 2 asks to find the test statistic for a hypothesis test on sample data. Problem 3-4 ask to identify the correct null and alternative hypotheses for two hypothesis testing scenarios. Problem 5 asks to state the null and alternative hypotheses and conduct a hypothesis test on sample data about employee ages. Problem 6 asks similar questions for a hypothesis test on chocolate chips per cookie. Problem 7 asks to conduct a full hypothesis test to determine if a sample proportion is statistically significantly different from a hypothesized value.

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Confidence Interval

You have data about schooling years and corresponding earnings.


Task 1. Show the unbiasedness of the estimator for population mean (years of schooling).
Task 2. Find the effective estimator for population mean of years of schooling.
Task 3. Explain the consistency of the estimator for population mean (years of schooling).

Testing Hypothesis

Problem 1. A random sample of 16 students selected from the student body of a large university
had an average age of 25 years and a standard deviation of 2 years. We want to determine if the
average age of all the students at the university is significantly different from 24. Assume the
distribution of the population of ages is normal. Find the test statistic.

Problem 2. n = 16 x = 75.607 s = 8.246 H0:   80


Ha:  < 80
Assume population is normally distributed. Find the test statistic.

Problem 3. In the past, 75% of the tourists who visited Chattanooga went to see Rock City. The
management of Rock City recently undertook an extensive promotional campaign. They
are interested in determining whether the promotional campaign actually increased the
proportion of tourists visiting Rock City. The correct set of hypotheses is
a. H0: p > 0.75 Ha: p  0.75
b. H0: p < 0.75 Ha: p  0.75
c. H0: p  0.75 Ha: p < 0.75
d. H0: p  0.75 Ha: p > 0.75

Problem 4. The academic planner of a university thinks that at least 35% of the entire student
body attends summer school. The correct set of hypotheses to test his belief is
a. H0: p > 0.35 Ha: p  0.35
b. H0: p  0.35 Ha: p > 0.35
c. H0: p  0.35 Ha: p < 0.35
d. H0: p > 0.35 Ha: p  0.35

Problem 5. In the past the average age of employees of a large corporation has been 40 years.
Recently, the company has been hiring older individuals. In order to determine whether
there has been an increase in the average age of all the employees, a sample of 25
employees was selected. The average age in the sample was 45 years with a standard
deviation of 5 years. Assume the distribution of the population is normal. Let  =0.05.
a. State the null and the alternative hypotheses.
b. Test to determine whether or not the mean age of all employees is significantly
more than 40 years.

Problem 6. A sample of 16 cookies is taken to test the claim that each cookie contains at least
9 chocolate chips. The average number of chocolate chips per cookie in the sample was
7.875 with a standard deviation of 1.
a. State the null and alternative hypotheses.
b. Using a critical value, test the hypothesis at the 1% level of significance.
c. Using a p-value, test the hypothesis at the 1% level of significance.
d. Compute the probability of a Type II error if the true number of chocolate chips per
cookie is 8.

Problem 7. Consider the following hypothesis test:


Ho: p = 0.5
Ha: p  0.5

A sample of 800 provided a sample proportion of 0.58.


a. Using  = 0.05, what is the rejection rule?
b. Determine the standard error of the proportion.
c. Compute the value of the test statistic z. What is your conclusion?
d. Determine the p-value.

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