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NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY

ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

STATISTICS

Tutorial 6
This tutorial checks your understanding of testing hypothesis about the population mean when
population standard deviation is known and unknown.

Question 1

A mail order firm claims that new procedures enable it to dispatch orders more quickly than
previously. Records show that the previous average delay was 20 days. A random of 17 orders
using the new procedure showed a delay time of 18 days with a sample standard deviation of 2.5
days. Is the claim made for the new procedures supported at the 5% level?

Question 2

In the lecture you tested the null hypothesis that college graduate students work longer than 40
hours per week on average. Now use gss.sav file and test the hypothesis that all full-time workers
work for 40 hours per week on average (variable hrs1).
a. What are the null and alternative hypotheses?
b. Test the hypothesis and write a brief summary of your conclusions.
c. Explain the difference between the standard deviation of your sample and the standard
error of the mean.
d. If your sample size were doubled, how would you expect the value of S.D to change?
How would the value of the standard error of the mean change? Estimate both the S.D
and the standard error for a sample twice as large.
e. What is the 95% CI for the average number of hours per week by full-time workers? Give
your conclusion on the hypothesis testing using the 95% CI.
f. Based on the 95% CI for the mean difference, can you reject the null hypothesis that the
average population value for hours worked is 43 hours? Explain.

Question 3

Use the gss.sav data file to perform the appropriate analyses to test whether the average number
of hours of daily television viewing (tvhours) is the same for men and women. Include
appropriate charts to illustrate your findings. Be sure to look at the distribution of hours of
television viewed separately for men and women.
1. Based on the results you observed, is it reasonable to conclude that in the population,
men and women watch the same amount of television?
2. If you found a statistically significant difference between average hours watched by men
and women, would you necessarily conclude that men and women do not watch the same
amount of television? What other nonstatistical explanations are possible for your
findings?

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