MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781119256830
Author: Amos Gilat
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
expand_more
expand_more
format_list_bulleted
Related questions
Topic Video
Question
Transcribed Image Text:Frito-Lay produces a 10 ounce family size bag of the regular potato chips and a 9.5 ounce family
size bag of wavy potato chips. Both of these bags are sold for the same price. A researcher
wants to test the claim that there is really a difference in the mean weight of bags for the two
types of potato chips despite being listed for two different weights? Random samples of 18 bags
of each variety were selected and you may assume each sample was selected from a very large
population. The data set is called "Regular and Wavy Potato Chips Weights."
a) What is the parameter of interest? Choose one of the following symbols u (the
population mean); Hn (the mean difference from paired (dependent) data); - : (the
difference of two independent means); and describe the parameter in context of this
question in one sentence.
Expert Solution
This question has been solved!
Explore an expertly crafted, step-by-step solution for a thorough understanding of key concepts.
This is a popular solution
Trending nowThis is a popular solution!
Step by stepSolved in 2 steps
Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, statistics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Similar questions
- A consumer advocacy group is doing a large study on car rental practices. Among other things, the consumer group would like to do a statistical test regarding the mean mnonthly mileage, u, of cars rented in the U.S. this year. The consumer group has good reason to believe that the mean monthly mileage of cars rented in the U.S. this year is greater than last year's mean, which was 2750 miles. The group plans to do a statistical test regarding the value of u. It chooses a random sample of monthly mileages and computes the mean of the sample to be 2900 miles and the standard deviation to be 700 miles. Based on this information, complete the parts below. (a) What are the null hypothesis H, and the alternative hypothesis H, that should be used for the test? H.: Oarrow_forwardAnterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries occur most frequently in planting and cutting sports such as basketball, soccer, and volleyball. A sports medicine researcher wants to test if female athletes are more likely to have an ACL injury than males. He surveyed 50 collegiate programs that had both men’s and woman’s volleyball and asked them how many grade 3 ACL tears they had during the past season. Which statistical test would be best to determine if there is a significant difference between groups?arrow_forwardTwo popular brands of tires for tractor-trailers are the Puma and the Eternal. Salma is a buyer for a major shipping company and wants to determine if there is any difference between the two brands of tire in the mean distance (in thousands of km) driven on them before they need to be replaced. In the company's testing lab, Salma tests a random sample of 14 Puma tires and a random sample of 15 Eternal tires. (These samples are chosen independently.) For the Puma tires, the sample mean distance (in thousands of km) until they would need to be replaced is 54.71 with a sample variance of 5.95. For the Eternal tires, the sample mean distance (in km) until they would need to be replaced is 50.21 with a sample variance of 37.75. Assume that the two populations of distances driven are approximately normally distributed. Can Salma conclude, at the 0.05 level of significance, that there is a difference between the population mean of the distances (in thousands of km) driven on Puma tires before…arrow_forwardAn adventure company runs two obstacle courses, Fundash and Coolsprint. The designer of the courses suspects that the mean completion time of Fundash is not equal to the mean completion time of Coolsprint. To test this, she selects 205 Fundash runners and 300 Coolsprint runners. (Consider these as random samples of the Fundash and Coolspring runners.) The 205 Fundash runners complete the course with a mean time of 76.7 minutes and a standard deviation of 5.3 minutes. The 300 Coolsprint runners complete the course with a mean time of 77.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 5.1 minutes. Assume that the population standard deviations of the completion times can be estimated to be the sample standard deviations, since the samples that are used to compute them are quite large. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there enough evidence to support the claim that the mean completion time, ,, of Fundash is not equal to the mean completion time, μ₂, of Coolsprint? Perform a two-tailed test.…arrow_forwardAn important measure in the study of contagious infectious diseases is the number of cases directly generated by one previous case. Jessica is an epidemiologist studying the spread of an infectious disease in her country. She claimed that the mean number of cases directly generated by one previous case is now greater than 1.2. A study of 12 randomly selected cases of the disease is conducted and finds the sample mean number of cases directly generated by one previous case to be 1.5 with a sample standard deviation of 0.7. Assume that the population of the number of cases directly generated by one previous case is approximately normally distributed. Complete the parts below to perform a hypothesis test to see if there is enough evidence, at the 0.10 level of significance, to support the claim that u, the mean number of cases directly generated by one previous case, is greater than 1.2. (a) State the null hypothesis H, and the alternative hypothesis H, that you would use for the test.…arrow_forwardAn adventure company runs two obstacle courses, Fundash and Coolsprint. The designer of the courses suspects that the mean completion time of Fundash is not equal to the mean completion time of Coolsprint. To test this, she selects 250 Fundash runners and 285 Coolsprint runners. (Consider these as random samples of the Fundash and Coolspring runners.) The 250 Fundash runners complete the course with a mean time of 76.7 minutes and a standard deviation of 5.7 minutes. The 285 Coolsprint runners complete the course with a mean time of 77.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 5.6 minutes. Assume that the population standard deviations of the completion times can be estimated to be the sample standard deviations, since the samples that are used to compute them are quite large. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there enough evidence to support the claim that the mean completion time, u, of Fundash is not equal to the mean completion time, µa, of Coolsprint? Perform a two-tailed test.…arrow_forwardA researcher gathered a sample of participants who volunteered for a studying of phobias. She measured anxiety level of participants as they viewed photos of spiders and again when they viewed puppies. Which statistical test is appropriate for this study and why?arrow_forwardAt BYU-Idaho there has been a lot of interest in the performance of students in online classes. Generally, administrators are interested to know if there is a difference in the learning of students who take an online course compared to those who take a traditional course. A study was done to see if the grade received in the course is related to the type of course. Researchers collected the grades of randomly selected students who were taking a traditional Business Statistics class and compared those with the grades earned by randomly selected students who were taking an online Business Statistics class. The data are shown in the table below. Grade A B с D F You want to determine if a student's grade and the type of course he or she is enrolled in are independent. Use a level of significance of a = 0.01. State the null and alternative hypothesis for this test. O Ho: Traditional and online courses are not independent. H₂: Traditional and online courses are independent. O Ho: Traditional…arrow_forwardDepartment of Education was analysing the average mathematics test score in the schools in Victoria. It noticed that there were dramatic differences in scores among the schools. In the attempt to improve the scores of all the schools, department attempted to determine the factors that account for the differences. Accordingly, they took a random sample of 40 schools across the state and for each determined the mean test score last year, the percentage of teachers in the schools who have at least one university degree in mathematics, the mean age and the mean annual income of the mathematics teachers. The following is regression output from Excel. SUMMARY OUTPUT Regression Statistics Multiple R 0.597512 R Square 0.357021 Adjusted R Square 0.303439 Standard Error 7.724526 Observations 40 ANOVA df SS MS F Significance F…arrow_forwardA researcher at a college hears students complain that they don’t have enough time to in their week to study. He believes that the students at the college are spending much more time on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram than they did three years ago. He knows that three years ago, the mean number of hours per week students spent of social media was 15.1 hours. He takes a sample of 16 students and finds they spend 23.3 hours per week on social media with SS=240.Conduct a t-test to see is his theory is correct.(Be sure to show all 4 steps of a hypothesis test. Also be sure to consider if this is a one-tailed or two-tailed test.)arrow_forwardWhat statistical tool should I use for this problem? A graduating nursing student conducted a research regarding the effect of taking oral contraceptives to the blood pressure among women. She selected 40 women in her study who have not taken any contraceptives yet and 40 women who have taken contraceptives for a month, and then took their blood pressure. She analyzed the data and wanted to find out whether the blood pressure of women who took contraceptives significantly differs than those who don’t take any.arrow_forwardA researcher hypothesizes that different colors of cars result in different average speeds. To test this claim, she took a random sample of 20 people who own 4 different colors of colors of cars (n = 20, N = 80, G = 4), and she then tracks their average speed on the highway for a week of driving. The following ANOVA table has some of her results. Please help her answer her research questions by completing the following ANOVA table below and answering the follow-up questions. Be sure to label your answers with the appropriate letter and show all your work! Source Sums of Squares df Mean Square F Effect (between) Error (within) 100.90 ------ Total 170.10 ------- ------ a) What is the Sums of Squares (SS) between (effect)? b) What are the Mean Square (MS) between (effect) and the MS within (error)? c) What are the degrees of freedom (df) between, the df within, and the df total? d) What is the overall F-statistic? e) Based on the…arrow_forwardarrow_back_iosSEE MORE QUESTIONSarrow_forward_ios
Recommended textbooks for you
- MATLAB: An Introduction with ApplicationsStatisticsISBN:9781119256830Author:Amos GilatPublisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and th...StatisticsISBN:9781305251809Author:Jay L. DevorePublisher:Cengage Learning
Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences (MindTap C...StatisticsISBN:9781305504912Author:Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. WallnauPublisher:Cengage Learning 
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th E...StatisticsISBN:9780134683416Author:Ron Larson, Betsy FarberPublisher:PEARSON
The Basic Practice of StatisticsStatisticsISBN:9781319042578Author:David S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. FlignerPublisher:W. H. Freeman
Introduction to the Practice of StatisticsStatisticsISBN:9781319013387Author:David S. Moore, George P. McCabe, Bruce A. CraigPublisher:W. H. Freeman
MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
Statistics
ISBN:9781119256830
Author:Amos Gilat
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and th...
Statistics
ISBN:9781305251809
Author:Jay L. Devore
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences (MindTap C...
Statistics
ISBN:9781305504912
Author:Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th E...
Statistics
ISBN:9780134683416
Author:Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
Publisher:PEARSON
The Basic Practice of Statistics
Statistics
ISBN:9781319042578
Author:David S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. Fligner
Publisher:W. H. Freeman
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
Statistics
ISBN:9781319013387
Author:David S. Moore, George P. McCabe, Bruce A. Craig
Publisher:W. H. Freeman