Chapter 8: Q. 21 (page 392)
What is meant when we say that a hypothesis test is
(a) exact? (b)approximately correct?
Short Answer
Based on the significance level equaling to either of the terms are used.
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Chapter 8: Q. 21 (page 392)
What is meant when we say that a hypothesis test is
(a) exact? (b)approximately correct?
Based on the significance level equaling to either of the terms are used.
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Testing Claims About Proportions. In Exercises 9鈥32, test the given claim. Identify the null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, test statistic, P-value, or critical value(s), then state the conclusion about the null hypothesis, as well as the final conclusion that addresses the original claim. Use the P-value method unless your instructor specifies otherwise. Use the normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution, as described in Part 1 of this section.
Smoking Stopped In a program designed to help patients stop smoking, 198 patients were given sustained care, and 82.8% of them were no longer smoking after one month (based on data from 鈥淪ustained Care Intervention and Post discharge Smoking Cessation Among Hospitalized Adults,鈥 by Rigotti et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 312, No. 7). Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that 80% of patients stop smoking when given sustained care. Does sustained care appear to be effective?
Critical Values. In Exercises 21鈥24, refer to the information in the given exercise and do the following.
a. Find the critical value(s).
b. Using a significance level of = 0.05, should we reject or should we fail to reject ?
Exercise 19
Identifying and . In Exercises 5鈥8, do the following:
a. Express the original claim in symbolic form.
b. Identify the null and alternative hypotheses.
Pulse Rates Claim: The mean pulse rate (in beats per minute, or bpm) of adult males is equal to 69 bpm. For the random sample of 153 adult males in Data Set 1 鈥淏ody Data鈥 in Appendix B, the mean pulse rate is 69.6 bpm and the standard deviation is 11.3 bpm.
P-Values. In Exercises 17鈥20, do the following:
a. Identify the hypothesis test as being two-tailed, left-tailed, or right-tailed.
b. Find the P-value. (See Figure 8-3 on page 364.)
c. Using a significance level of = 0.05, should we reject or should we fail to reject ?
The test statistic of z = 1.00 is obtained when testing the claim that .
Testing Claims About Proportions. In Exercises 9鈥32, test the given claim. Identify the null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, test statistic, P-value, or critical value(s), then state the conclusion about the null hypothesis, as well as the final conclusion that addresses the original claim. Use the P-value method unless your instructor specifies otherwise. Use the normal distribution as an approximation to the binomial distribution, as described in Part 1 of this section.
Births A random sample of 860 births in New York State included 426 boys. Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that 51.2% of newborn babies are boys. Do the results support the belief that 51.2% of newborn babies are boys?
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