EXERCISES: Read and analyze each problem carefully then answer the question that follows.

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1. Calculate the value of z. Test the viability of the null hypothesis (Ho) for the given problem and draw a conclusion about the actual value of population mean (). a. Ho: = 4 b) Ho: = 10 Ha: 4 Ha: 10 n = 64 n = 81 2. A sample of 106 body temperatures having a mean of 98.20 F. Assume that the sample is a simple random sample and that the population standard deviation is known to be 0.62 F. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the common belief that the mean body temperature of healthy adults is equal to 98.6 F.

3. USA Today article reported experimental results from a nasal spray vaccine for children. Among 1070 children given the vaccine, 14 developed a flu. Among 532 children given a placebo, 95 developed a flu. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the proportion of flu cases among the vaccinated children is less than the children given a placebo. 4. A genetics experiment results in 580 offspring peas, and 26.2% or ( of them have yellow pods. Find the value of test statistics for Mendels claim that the proportion of peas with yellow pods is equal to 0.25.

5. Why is it important to use the phrases statistically significant and statistically nonsignificant rather than the phrases significant and non-significant when discussing the results of statistical tests?

Confidence Intervals for the Mean

Where: = the sample mean = 1 level of confidence desire = the critical t value at significance level = the estimated standard error of the mean or

6. A researcher administered a test of mathematical ability to a sample of 30 students. The mean score for the sample was 74.40 with standard deviation 13. Compute the 95% and 99% confidence interval.

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7. A researcher administered a measure of life satisfaction to a sample of 30 individuals and found a mean of 121 and a standard estimate of 10.77. Test the viability of the hypothesis that the true population mean equals 110 using a non-directional test.

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8. If the mean of correct trials of the population of non-drugged subject is 7, does the mean 8.4, , and observed standard deviation of 2.3, of a random sample of 20 subjects who are given a drug differ sufficiently from that population to warrant the conclusion that the drug has an effect on memory performance? Compute the 95% and 99% confidence interval. 9. In a Danish study, cell phone users were observed, and it was found that 77 cell phone users developed leukemia while 420, 018 cell phone users did not (based on data from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 3). The logical issue is whether cell phones pose a hazard, so test the claim that cell phone users have leukemia at a rate that is greater than the rate of 0.0190% for people who do not use cell phones. Use a 0.01 significance level. 10. In an experiment diagnosed to test the effectiveness of paroxetine for treating bipolar depression, subjects were measured using the Hamilton Depression Scale with the results given below (based on data from Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Comparison of Imipramise and Paroxetine in the Treatment of Bipolar Depression by Nemeroff, Evans, et. al., American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 158, No. 6). Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that the treatment group and placebo group come from populations with the same mean. What does the result of the hypothesis test suggest about paroxetine as a treatment for bipolar depression? Placebo group: n = 43, = 21.57, s = 3.87 Paroxetine group: n = 33, = 20.38, s = 3.91