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This document outlines an assignment for a sociology/psychology course at Chancellor College, detailing various statistical questions and problems to be solved by students. The assignment contributes 10% to the final grade and is due on December 24, 2020. It includes topics such as hypothesis testing, probability distributions, and statistical analysis of health data.

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Assignment Two 2020

This document outlines an assignment for a sociology/psychology course at Chancellor College, detailing various statistical questions and problems to be solved by students. The assignment contributes 10% to the final grade and is due on December 24, 2020. It includes topics such as hypothesis testing, probability distributions, and statistical analysis of health data.

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Chancellor College

Department of Sociology/Psychology

SOC 122/PSY 122

Course Instructor: Louiss Saddick, MA (Econ), Bsoc (Econ)

Assignment Two

Contribution to final grade: 10%

Due Date: 24th December, 2020

Instructions

1. Answer all questions


2. Write Neatly. Illegible will be assumed incorrect.

1. A random sample of 10 individuals drawn from the population of interest


has a mean of 21. Assuming that the population is approximately normally
distributed with variance 20.
a. Can we conclude that the mean is different from 30 years? Take
  0.05. 4 marks
b. If p-value is 0.0340, how can we use it in making a decision? 4 marks
2. Among 157 African-American men, the mean systolic blood pressure was
146 mm Hg with a standard deviation of 27. We wish to know if on the basis
of these data, we may conclude that the mean systolic blood pressure for
a population of African-American is greater than 140. Use   0.01 and
assume a normal distribution. 4 marks
3. Let X be the result from rolling a fair dice. Show the probability distribution
of X. 3 marks
4. Distinguish a probability density function from a cumulative density
function. Are the two are related? What conditions does a PDF satisfy?
4 marks
5. Distinguish a normal distribution from a standard normal distribution. 2 marks
6. A variable is said to follow a t-distribution, what does this mean? 2 marks
7. The PDF of the age of babies, x years, being brought to a post natal clinic
 3
x(2  x)......... .... 0  x  2
is given by f ( x )  4 .
0.......... .......... .....Otherwise

a. If 60 babies are brought in a particular day, how many are expected


to be under 8 month old? 4 marks
b. Find the mean age of the babies brought to the clinic. 4 marks
c. Find the variance of x. 4 marks
8. A health-care actuary has been investigating the cost of maintaining the
cancer patients within its plan. These people have typically been running
up costs at the rate of $1,240 per month. A sample of 15 cases for
November (the first 15 for which complete records were available) and an
average cost of $1,080, with a standard deviation of $180. Is there any
evidence of a significant change? Use   0.01. 4 marks
9. A study was conducted of the effects of a special class designed to aid
students with verbal skills. Each child was given a verbal skills test twice, both
before and after completing a 4-week period in the class. Let Y = score on
exam at time 2 - score on exam at time 1. Hence, if the population mean µ
for Y is equal to 0, the class has no effect, on the average. F or the four
children in the study, the observed values of Y are 8-5=3, 10-3=7, 5-2=3, and
7-4=3 (e.g. for the first child, the scores were 5 on exam 1 and 8 on exam 2,
so Y = 8-5=3). It is planned to test the null hypothesis of no effect against the
alternative hypothesis that the effect is positive, based on the following
results from a computer software package:
Variable Number of cases Mean Std. Dev Std. error
Y 4 4.000 2.000 1.000

a. Set up the null and alternative hypotheses. 2 marks


b. Calculate the test statistic, and indicate whether the P-value was
below 0.05, based on using the appropriate table. 4 marks
c. Make a decision, using α = .05. Interpret. 2 marks
d. If the decision in (c) is actually (unknown to us) incorrect, what type
of error has been made? What could you do to reduce the chance
of that type of error? 3 marks

END OF QUESTION PAPER

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