Assignment: Hypotheses and Testing Procedure (AP Statistics) In this assignment you will look for an experiment that

involved some type of hypothesis testing. Please do the following when you have found such an article: 1. Were the experimenters interested in testing a population proportion or population mean. The experimenters are interested in testing a population proportion. 2. What was the population characteristic that the experimenters were testing? 530 drivers recently involved in a crash, comparing them with 517 who had not had an accident within the past 12 months. All were driving tractor units with one, two or three trailers. The researchers interviewed all the drivers, gathering information about various health and lifestyle issues, including caffeine consumption over the past month. After adjusting for age, driver experience, distance driven, hours of sleep, naps, night driving and other factors, they found the result. 3. What was the hypothesized value for that population characteristic? Drivers who consumed caffeine were less likely to be involved in a crash. 4. Was the alternative hypothesis two tailed or one tailed? (i.e. did the experimenters use <, > or .) The alternative hypothesis is one tailed to the left. 5. State the null hypothesis in words. H0: = 63% The percent is that drivers who consumed caffeine were 63 percent less likely to be involved in a crash.

6. State the alternative hypothesis in words. Ha: The percent is that drivers who consumed caffeine were less than 63 percent less likely to be involved in a crash.

7. What did the experimenters conclude. Clearly drivers are using caffeinated substances to help them stay awake. 8. Did they correctly use the hypothesis testing method and say we reject (or fail to reject) the null hypothesis?

They made a hypothesis that drivers who consumed caffeine were less likely to be involved in a crash. After they interviewed drivers who recently involved with accident and who didnt, the researchers are failed to reject the null hypothesis.

9. Summarize the purpose of the experiment. Australian researchers looked at data on 530 drivers recently involved in a crash, comparing them with 517 who had not had an accident within the past 12 months. After adjusting for age, driver experience, distance driven, hours of sleep, naps, night driving and other factors, they found that drivers who consumed caffeine were 63 percent less likely to be involved in a crash. 10. Summarize the purpose/intent of the article.

Long-haul truck drivers who drink coffee or other caffeinated drinks are significantly less likely to have an accident than their uncaffeinated peers.