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APPLIED STATISTICS
COURSE CODE
BUM2413IBSU1023IBCT2053'3313'
BKU20321BAM3022/BMM2122
LECTURER
DATE
04 JANUARY 2012
DURATION
3 HOURS
SESSION/SEMESTE R :
This question paper consists of SEVEN (7) questions. Answer ALL the questions.
All answers to a new question should start on a new page.
All the calculations and assumptions must be clearly stated.
Candidates are not allowed to bring any material other than those allowed by the
invigilator into the examination room.
EXAMINATION REQUIREMENT S:
1.
2.
Statistical Table
Scientific Calculator
DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO
This examination paper consists of TEN (10)printed pages including front page.
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QUESTION 1
A study on an operating system for a portable computer has been carried out thoroughly
to estimate the mean and variance of response time. A random sample of six portable
computers from Brand A and a random sample of nine portable computers from Brand B
are chosen. The recorded data (in milliseconds) for both brands are as follows.
Brand A:
25
23
22
25
23
24
Brand B:
28
24
25
26
23
27
26
24
25
(a)
construct a 95% confidence interval on the ratio of variances for both brands of
portable computer.
(7 Marks)
(b)
test the hypothesis whether the variance response time for portable computer from
Brand A is smaller than the variance response time for portable computer from
Brand B at 0.05 level of significance using the traditional method. Based on the
analysis, which brand of portable computer should be chosen? State your reason.
(10 Marks)
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QUESTION 2
Two extrusion machines that manufacture steel rods are being compared. In a sample of
1000 rods taken from Machine X, 930 rods met specifications regarding length and
diameter. In a sample of 600 rods taken from Machine Y, 570 rods met the specifications.
Machine Y is more expensive to run, so it is decided that Machine X will be used unless
it can be convincingly shown that Machine Y produces a larger proportion of rods
meeting specifications.
(a)
Find a 99% confidence interval on the difference between two proportions of rods
meeting specifications for both machines.
(5 Marks)
(b)
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QUESTION 3
Ahmad and Jasonprepare a report to an engineer in a textile mill who studies the effects
of temperature and time in a process involving dye on the brightness of a synthetic fabric
(brightness is measured on a 50-point scale). Three observations were taken at each
combination of temperature and time.
Time (cycles)
350
Temperature (F)
375
I
400
40
38, 32, 30
37, :35, 40
36, 39, 43
50
40, 45, 36
39, 42, 46
39, 48, 47
Source of variation
SS
Time
150.222
Temperature
80.778
Interaction
3.444
Error
186.000
Total
420.444
d.f
MS
(a)
(b)
(8 Marks)
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QUESTION 4
Mechanical engineers, testing a new arc-welding technique, classified welds both with
respect to appearance and an x-ray inspection.
Appearance
X-ray
Bad
Normal
Good
Total
Bad
20
30
Normal
13
51
16
80
Good
12
21
40
Total
40
70
40
150
Test for independence at 5% significance level and show all calculations in three
decimal places.
(8 Marks)
QUESTION 5
Acme Toy Company prints baseball cards. The company claims that 30% of the cards are
rookies, 60% veterans, and 10% are All-Stars. The cards are sold in packages of 100.
Suppose a randomly selected package of cards has 50 rookies, 45 veterans, and 5 AllStars. Is this consistent with the Acme's claim? Use a 0.1 level of significance.
(8 Marks)
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QUESTION 6
A fast-food chain decided to carry out an experiment to assess the influence of
advertising expenditure on sales. Different relative changes in advertising expenditure,
compared to the previous year, were made in eight regions of the country, resulting
changes in sales levels were observed. The accompanying table shows the results.
Increase in advertising
expenditure (%)
Increase insales(%)
2.4
7.2
10.3
9.1
10.2
4.1
7.6
3.5
(a)
Compute the value of the correlation coefficient for the above data.
(b)
What can you conclude from the value of the correlation coefficient obtained from
(9 Marks)
part (a)?
(1 Mark)
(c)
(d)
(e)
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QUESTION 7
A study is conducted to assess the quality of staffs in a company based on their quality of
letters of recommendation. There are three predictor variables used to determine the
quality of letters of recommendation, namely college GPA, high school GPA and TOEFL
total. The following Excel output shows a multiple regression analysis when all the three
predictor variables are used to predict the quality of letters of recommendation.
SUMMARY OUTPUT
Regression Statistics
'Multiple R
.
R Square
Adjusted R Square
Standard Error
Observations
0.6304
0.3974
0.3785
1.17891
100.
ANOVA
MS
df
Regression
Residual
Total
87 9735
96 133.4165
- ....... 1
.- ...........
99 221.39001
3
Coefficients
-Intercept
College GPA
High school GPA
:TOEFL total
(a)
2.8793
0.0907
13192
-0.0006
29.3245
'Significance
211005
1.3898
. - ------
Standard
tStat
Error
-- 0.5760 - 4.9991
0.4449
0.2039
65967
02000
1
-0.8616
0.0007
1.3967E-10.
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. Upper
P-value . Lower 95% . 95%
0.0000
0.674
00000
0.3911
Upper
Lower
1
95.0%
95.0%
405 - 1.7360 1
-0.3140 j
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09222
17161
-0.0019
0.0007
(b)
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4.0225
0.4955 -.
17161
0.0007
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(c)
Interpret theintercept value and the coefficient of TOEFL total when the other
variables are remained constant.
(2 Marks)
(d)
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