HW 6 - GOF, Contingence Tables

1) Consider the following table of values for five categories: Category Frequency 1 24 2 64 3 84 4 72 5 56

Test the hypothesis: Ho: P1 = .1, P2=.2, P3 = .3, P4 = .2, P5 = .2 Do by hand 2) A random sample of 50 observations yielded the following frequencies for the standardized intervals. Interval Z -1 -1 < z 0 0<z1 Z>1 Frequency 6 27 14 3

Can we infer that the data are not normally distributed? (Use = 0.10) Do by hand. 3) Pat Statsdud is about to take a multiple choice exam but, as usual, knows absolutely nothing. Pat plans to guess one of the five choices. Pat has been given one of the professor's previous exams with the correct answers marked. The correct choices were recorded where 1 = (a), 2 = (b), 3 = (c), 4 = (d), and 5 = (e). Help Pat determine whether this professor does not randomly distribute the correct answer over the five choices. If this is true, how does it affect Pat's strategy? Use dataset HW6 Multiple Choice.xls Do by Computer 4) Test the see if the speed data for week 1 in HW5 Speed.xls are normally distributed. Do this by computer. 5) The operations manager of a company that manufactures shirts wants to determine whether there are differences in the quality of workmanship among the three daily shifts. She randomly selects 600 recently made shirts and carefully inspects them. Each shirt is classified as either perfect or flawed, and the shift that produced it is also recorded. The accompanying table summarizes the number of shirts that fell into each cell. Do these data provide sufficient evidence to infer that there are differences in quality among the three shifts? Shift Condition Shift 1 Shift 2 Shift 3 Perfect 240 191 139 Flawed 10 9 11 Do by hand.

6) A sample of newspaper readers was asked to report which newspaper they read and to indicate whether they were a blue-collar worker, a white-collar worker, or a professional. Can we infer that occupation and newspaper read are related? Blue-Collar White-Collar Professional G&M 27 29 33 Post 18 43 51 Star 38 21 22 Sun 37 15 20 Do this by Computer. 7) The relationship between drug companies and medical researchers is under scrutiny because of possible conflict of interest. The issue that started the controversy was a 1995 case control study that suggested that the use of calcium-channel blockers to treat hypertension led to an increase risk of heart disease. This led to an intense debate both in technical journals and in the press. Researchers writing in the New England Journal of Medicine ("Conflict of Interest in the Debate over Calcium Channel Antagonists," January 8, 1998, p. 101) looked at the 70 reports that appeared during 1996-1997, classifying them as favorable, neutral, or critical toward the drugs. The researchers then contacted the authors of the reports and questioned them about financial ties to drug companies. The results were recorded in the following way. Column 1: Results of the scientific study; 1 = favorable, 2 = neutral, 3 = critical Column 2: 1 = financial ties to drug companies, 2 = no ties to drug companies Do these data allow us to infer that the research findings for calcium-channel blockers are affected by whether the research is funded by drug companies? Do this by Computer. Use dataset: HW6 Conflict of Interest.xls 8) Test whether you can infer that this years monthly mortgages exceed $900. Use dataset: HW5 Mortgage.xls Do this by computer. 9) a) Define type II error. b) If Ho: The plane is not safe to fly then describe the consequences of a type II error. 10) State Chebychevs theorem 11) Why do we use do not reject Ho verses accept Ho? 12) What is the predictable distribution for variances? 13) Suppose engineers recoded data so that springs that were the correct length were recorded as 1, springs that were too long were recorded as 2, and springs that were too short were recorded as 3. Can we infer at that less than 90% of the springs are the correct length? Use excel file: HW5 Springs.xls Do this by computer. Hint: This is a review type question that you now do via the computer. Search for the correct procedure to use.