Research Methodology

Sem: V
Module 12. Hypothesis testing

Parametric tests

1. A sample of 200 bulbs made by a company give a lifetime mean of 1540 hours with a standard deviation of 42
hours. It is likely that the sample has been drawn from a population with a mean lifetime of 1500 hours? (test at
5% level of significance)
2. On a typing test, a random sample of 36 graduates averaged 73.6 words with a standard deviation of 8.10 words
per minute. Test an employer’s claim that the school’s graduates average less than 75.0 words per minute using a
5 percent level of significance.
3. It is known from the past studies that the monthly average household expenditure on food items in a locality is
Rs.2700 with a standard deviation of Rs.160. An economist took a random sample of 25 households from the
locality and found their monthly household expenditure on food items to be Rs.2790. At 0.01 level of significance,
can we conclude that the average household expenditure on the food item is greater than Rs.2700?
4. A sample of 16 graduating engineering students of a college was taken and the information on their starting salary
was obtained. The mean monthly starting salary was found to be Rs.30,200 with a standard deviation of Rs.960.
The past data of the starting salary has given a mean of Rs.30,000. Using a 5 percent level of significance, can we
conclude that the average starting salary is different from Rs.30,000?
5. Prices of share (in Rs.) of a company on different days in a month were found to be 66, 65, 69, 70, 69, 71, 70, 63,
64 and 68. Examine whether the mean price of the shares in the month is different from 65. You may use 10%
level of significance.
6. A study is carried out to examine whether the mean hourly wages of the unskilled workers in two cities-Ambala
Cantonment and Lucknow are the same. The random sample of hourly earnings in both the cities is taken and the
results are given below. Using 5% level of significance, test the hypothesis of no difference in the average wages
of unskilled workers in the two cities.
7. Two drugs meant to provide relief to arthritis patients were produced in two different laboratories. The first drug
was administered to a group of 12 patients and produced an average of 8.5 hours of relief with a standard deviation
of 1.8 hours. The second drug was tested on a sample of 8 patients and produced an average of 7.9 hours of relief
with a standard deviation of 2.1 hours. Test the hypothesis that the first drug provides a significantly higher period
of relief. You may use 5% level of significance.
8. There were two types of drugs (1 and 2) that were tried on some patients for reducing hair loss. There were 8
adults who were subjected to drug 1 and seven to drug 2. The decrease in hair fall (in %) is given below. Assuming
the population variances are not same, do the drugs differ significantly in their effect on decreasing hair fall? You
may use 5% level of significance.
Drug 1 10 8 12 14 7 15 13 11
Drug 2 12 10 7 6 12 11 12
9. A company selects 8 salesmen at random and their sales figures for the previous month are recorded. They then
undergo a training course devised by a business consultant, and their sales figures for the following month are
compared as shown in the table. Has the training course caused an improvement in their ability? You may use 5%
level of significance.
Previous month 75 90 94 95 100 90 70 64
Following month 77 101 93 92 105 88 76 68

Non-paramteric tests

1. Sale figures of 10 stores are given below. The data is not normal. Is the claim that the median sale is different
from 450 valid at 5% level of significance?
Serial no.s Sale figures for each store
Store Sales
1 485
2 562
3 414
4 860
5 425
6 474
7 662
8 380
9 515
10 721

2. Manager of a mall has given the following ratings to employees who are college graduates and high-school
graduates. At 5% level of significance check whether the claim that college graduates get a higher rating than high
school graduates.
Student ID College/ High School Manager’s rating
1 C 15
2 C 3
3 C 23
4 C 8
5 H 18
6 H 20
7 H 32
8 H 9
9 H 25

3. The production time by two methods are noted for 11 workers. Check the claim that the method A is more time
consuming than method B.
Sr no. Production completion times
Methods
Worker A B
1 10.2 9.5
2 9.6 9.8
3 9.2 8.8
4 10.6 10.1
 5 9.9 10.3
6 10.2 9.3
7 10.6 10.5
8 10 10
9 11.2 10.6
10 10.7 10.2
11 10.6 9.8

4. The manager of an ice-cream parlour has to take a decision regarding how much of each flavor of ice-cream he
should stock so that the demands of the customers can be satisfied. The ice-cream supplier claims that among the
four most popular flavours, 62% customers prefer vanilla, 18% prefer chocolate, 12% prefer strawberry and 8%
prefer mango. A random sample of 200 customers produce the following results. At 𝛼=5% significance level, test
the claim that the percentages given by the supplier is correct.
5. A sample of 870 trainees was subjected to different types of training classified as intensive, good and average and
their performance was noted as above average, average and poor. The resulting data is presented in the table
below. Use 5% level of significance to examine whether there is any relationship between the type of training and
performance.