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beigecockroach197 asked for the first time
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15 Mar 2022

Chapter 8 of independence sample t-test

1. A social work agency specializes in treating families in crisis. One of their goals is to increase the stability of the family, reducing the frequency of times of distress. The common practice in the agency is for a team of crisis counselors to respond in those times that families are in distress, hopefully helping them to learn healthier ways to cope with the challenges they face. A new director has arrived, and wants to test a new kind of intervention. For this intervention, the social work counselors will meet regularly with clients to educate them on stress and conflict management strategies, in addition to being available on an as needed basis. The director decides to test the new intervention, by assigning one group of families to be in the 'control' condition, and simply receive the usual assistance, and another group of families to be in the 'intervention' condition, who also receive the regularly scheduled stress and conflict management education. The director wants to know whether families who receive the intervention score better on a family stability test than families who do not receive the intervention.

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a. What hypothesis is being tested here? (1 pt)
b. What are the means for the two groups? (1 pt)
c. Examine Levene's Test for Equality of Variance. Is it safe to conclude that homogeneity of variance exists here? What number tells you this? (2 pts) =
d. Write your result in the three sentence format. (3 pts). 
 
2. Suppose that the director is concerned that scores may have been influenced by the time of year that families received intervention. Specifically, she fears that it may be that more families in the intervention group were tested in the summer, and more in the control group were tested during the school year. She decides to run another analysis to determine whether families who were tested during the school year score differently on the family stability test than families who were tested during the summer.

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a. What hypothesis is being tested here? (1 pt) =
b. What are the means for your two groups? (2 pts) =
c. Examine Levene's Test for Equality of Variance. Is it safe to conclude that you have homogeneity of variance here? What number tells you this? (2 pts) =
d. Write your result in the three sentence format. (3 pts) =
 
3. All of the components that go into the t equation are presented in the output for each question above. You do not have to do the calculations, but write out the equation here, filling in the numbers that correspond to each symbol in the t-equation for question 2. (4 pts)
 
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Taking It Further
4. What is the confidence interval of the difference for question 1? What exactly does this represent? (4 pts)
5. What is the confidence interval of the difference for question 2? What exactly does this represent? (4 pts)
6. When heterogeneity of variance exists in an analysis, does this have any impact on the confidence interval of the difference? If so, does it make the confidence interval wider or narrower than when homogeneity of variance exists? (2 pts)
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yen8814 asked for the first time
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1 Mar 2022

SECTION II

Green & Fast Motor (GFM) manufactures passenger cars. It equips its cars with Power tyres

supplied by the Power Drive Corporation (PDC), before delivering them to its two regional

distributors located in the East and West of the country. PDC's product information shows that

the lifespan of a Power tyre follows a Normal Distribution with mean value of 40000 kilometres

(km) and standard deviation of 2000 km.

 

Question 1

(a) GFM's management wants to understand more about the Power tyres.

(i) Find the distance that 80% of the Power tyres can last beyond.

(ii) The company's Data Analyst wants to take a sample of Power tyres to study their

performances. He took data from only 12 tyres as he is constrained by time and

resources for the analysis. Evaluate the probability that the mean lifespan of these

12 tyres will be at least 41000 km. Explain why the Analyst can use a small sample

size.

 

(b) Eco Earth Enterprise (EEE) has developed its new Eco tyre based on the latest synthetic

material. While promoting its tyre to SFM, EEE's Sales Director boasted that Eco tyre

provides better fuel efficiency (measured in km/litre) than Power tyre for vehicles.

GFM's management bought one shipment of Eco tyres. It equipped the cars for its East

Region distributor with Eco tyres while those for the West Region distributor continued

to use Power tyres. A sample of cars sold by each distribution is monitored and the cars'

fuel efficiencies are recorded as shown in the data file

(Fuel_Efficiencies_Eco_n_Power.xlsx).

FE with Power tyres FE with Eco tyres                                10.30                                 11.30                                 11.10                                 10.90                                 11.50                                 11.40                                    7.70                                 11.90                                 12.90                                 11.30                                 10.70                                 11.90                                    9.90                                    8.00                                 11.70                                 12.10                                    9.70                                 11.10                                 10.00                                 11.20                                 10.00                                    9.00                                    9.10                                 12.00                                 10.60                                    8.80                                    8.90                                 13.20                                    9.80                                    9.40                                 12.00                                 11.00                                 11.10                                    9.70                                 11.00                                 10.90                                 12.70                                 12.40                                    9.30                                 12.70                                  10.10                                 11.60                                 10.10                                 11.70                                    9.20                                    9.30                                 10.70                                    8.50                                 10.10                                   10.10       

 

 

 

Use Microsoft Excel to summarise separately the two (2) samples of data on the cars'

fuel efficiencies. Identify the locations and spreads of the samples, each with a measure

that takes all data into consideration. Comment on their differences.

Present the data in an appropriate type of diagram. Comment on the data distributions.

 

(c) Using the Excel summary output in Q1(b), identify the 95% Confidence Interval (CI)

estimate of the mean fuel efficiency for each type of tyre used and interpret this

confidence interval. Hence infer any differences in the fuel efficiencies provided by the

two (2) different tyres.

 

State the requirement in using t-distributions to construct the confidence intervals.

Justify whether this requirement is met in both cases.

 

 

Relating to above

(a) Develop an appropriate Hypothesis Test at 0.05 significant level to validate EEE's claim.

You must use the critical value approach, show the five (5) test steps and calculate the

test statistic by using data from the Excel Summary output from Question 1(b).

Examine and explain the type of Hypothesis Test Error that may occur in this analysis

and the consequence of this error.

 

(b) Apply Microsoft Excel to conduct the same test as Q2(a) but at 0.10 significant level,

using p value approach. You only need to show the steps which are different from the

test in Q2(a) and make your test conclusion based on the p value obtained from the Excel

test output.

 

(c) GFM consults you on the Statistic and Test procedures conducted. Discuss two (2)

shortcomings (excludes the issue on type of Test Error in Question 2(a) and how you would have done differently to obtain more robust test results).

 

 

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