ISDS 2000 Exam 3

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If the p-value for a hypothesis test is 0.027 and the chosen level of significance is α = 0.05, then the correct conclusion is to ________________.

reject the null hypothesis

To test if the mean IQ of employees in an organization is greater than 100, a sample of 30 employees is taken and the value of the test statistic is computed as t29 = 2.42 If we choose a 5% significance level, we _____________.

reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the mean IQ is greater than 100

A 90% confidence interval is constructed for the population mean. If a 95% confidence interval had been constructed instead (everything else remaining the same), the width of the interval would have been ________ and the probability of making an error would have been _________.

wider; smaller

What is Zα/2 for a 95% confidence interval of the population mean?

1.96

Statisticians like precision in their interval estimates. A low margin of error is needed to achieve this. Which of the following supports this when selecting sample sizes?

A larger sample size reduces the margin of error.

Expedia would like to test if the average round-trip airfare between Philadelphia and Dublin is less than $1,200. The correct hypothesis statement would be __________________________.

Ho:μ≥$1,200,HA:μ<$1,200

Which of the following are two-tailed tests?

Ho:μ = 10, HA:μ ≠ 10

A university is interested in promoting graduates of its honors program by establishing that the mean GPA of these graduates exceeds 3.50. A sample of 36 honors students is taken and is found to have a mean GPA equal to 3.60. The population standard deviation is assumed to equal 0.40. To establish whether the mean GPA exceeds 3.50, the appropriate hypotheses are ______________.

Ho:μ≤3.50,HA:μ>3.50

In general, the null and alternative hypotheses are __________.

Mutually exclusive

What is the decision rule when using the p-value approach to hypothesis testing?

Reject Ho if the p-value < α.

How do the Tdf and Z distributions differ?

The Tdf distribution has broader tails (it is flatter around zero).

The national average for an eighth-grade reading comprehension test is 73. A school district claims that its eighth-graders outperform the national average. In testing the school district's claim, how does one define the population parameter of interest?

The mean score on the eighth-grade reading comprehension test

What is the purpose of calculating a confidence interval?

To provide a range of values that, with a certain measure of confidence, contains the population parameter of interest.

A professional sports organization is going to implement a test for steroids. The test gives a positive reaction in 94% of the people who have taken the steroid. However, it erroneously gives a positive reaction in 4% of the people who have not taken the steroid. What is the probability of Type I and Type II errors giving the null hypothesis "the individual has not taken steroids."

Type I: 4%, Type II: 6%

A Type I error occurs when we ___________.

reject the null hypothesis when it is actually true

It is generally believed that no more than 0.50 of all babies in a town in Texas are born out of wedlock. A politician claims that the proportion of babies born out of wedlock is increasing. When testing the two hypotheses, H0>: p ≤ 0.50 and HA: p > 0.50, p stands for _____________.

the current proportion of babies born out of wedlock

A fast-food franchise is considering building a restaurant at a busy intersection. A financial advisor determines that the site is acceptable only if, on average, more than 300 automobiles pass the location per hour. The advisor tests the following hypotheses: Ho: μ ≤ 300. HA: μ > 300. The consequences of committing a Type I error would be that____________________________

the franchiser builds on an unacceptable site

The ages of MBA students at a university are normally distributed with a known population variance of 10.24. Suppose you are asked to construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean age if the mean of a sample of 36 students is 26.5 years. If a 99% confidence interval is constructed instead of a 95% confidence interval for the population mean, then _______________________________________________.

the resulting margin of error will increase and the risk of reporting an incorrect interval will decrease


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