UNIT –I

TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
Z-Test
1. A Sample of 900 items has mean 3.4 and standard deviation [Link] for the sample be
regarded as drawn from a population with mean 3.25 at 5% level of significance?
2. In a random sample of size 500, the mean is found to be 20. In another independent sample of
size 400, the mean is [Link] for the samples have been drawn from the same population with S.
D is 4. Use 1% level of significance.

3. A manufacturer of machine bearings claims that 90% of the heavy machine bearings have a work life
of more than 5 years. You doubt this claim and want to refute it on the basis of a sample of 200 bearings
where 170 did work for more than 5 years. Conduct a test of hypothesis using α =0.10 .

4. A total number of 3759 persons were interviewed in a public opinion survey on a political
proposal. Of them 1872 were men and the rest women. 2257 persons were favors of the proposal
and 917 were opposed to it. 243 men were undecided and 442 women were opposed to the
proposal. Justify or contradict the hypothesis that there is no association between the sex of the
persons and their attitude at 5% level of significance.

5. In a large city A 20% of a random sample of 900 school boys had a slight physical defect. In
another city B 18.5% of a random sample of 1600 school boys had the same defect. Test for
difference between the proportions significant?

6. A sample of heights of 6400 Englishmen has a mean of 67.85 inches and a S.D of 2.56 inches,
while a sample of heights of 1600 Australians has a mean of 68.55 inches and a S.D. of 2.52
inches. To test the data indicate that Australians are on the average taller than Englishmen?
7. The mean life time of a sample of 100 bulbs produced by a company is computed to be 1570
hours with a standard deviation of 120 hours. If μ is the mean life time of all the bulbs produced
by the company, test hypothesis μ=1600 hours, against the alternate hypothesis μ ≠1600 hours
with α =0.05 and 0.01 .

8. A die thrown 400 times and a throw of 3 or 4 is observed 150 times. Test the hypothesis that
the dice is fair (unbiased).

t-Test
1. Two independent samples of sizes 8 and 7 contained the following values:
Sample 1: 19 17 15 21 16 18 16 14
Sample 2: 15 14 15 19 15 18 16
Test for the difference between the sample means significance? Use 5% level of significance.
2. A Certain injection administered to each of 12 patients resulted in the following increases of blood
pressure: 5,2,8,-1,3,0,6,-2,1,5,0,4 can it be concluded that the injection will be, in general, accompanied
by an increase in B.P?

3. Samples of two types of electric bulbs were tested for length of life and the following data were
obtained.

Sample Size Mean S.D

1 8 1234 hours 36 hours
2 12 1036 hours 40 hours
Test for difference in the means sufficient to warrant that sample I bulbs are superior to sample II bulbs?

4. The following random samples are measurements of the heat producing capacity (in millions of
calories per ton) of specimens of a coal from two mines:
Mine 1: 8130 8350 8070 8340 8260
Mine 2: 7950 7890 7900 8140 7920
Use the 0.01 level of significance to test whether the difference between the means of these two
samples is significant.
[Link] whether the sample having the values 63,63,64,55,66,69,70,70 and 71 has been chosen from a
population with mean of 65 at 5% level of significance.
6. The independent samples from normal populations with equal variance
given the following table:
Sample Size Mean S.D
1 16 23.4 2.5
2 12 24.9 2.8
Test for difference between the means significant?

F-Test
1. The nicotine contents in two samples (random) tobacco are given below:

Sample I 21 24 25 26 27
Sample II 22 27 28 30 31 36
Test for the estimates of the population variance differ significantly?

2. Two random samples of 11 and 9 items show that the samples standard deviations of their
weights as 0.8 and 0.5 respectively. Assuming the weight distributions are normal, test the
hypothesis that the true variances are equal, against the alternative hypothesis that they are not.
(N/D 2022)
3. Two independent samples of sizes 9 and 7 from a normal population had the following values of a variables.

Sample I 18 13 12 15 12 14 16 14 15
Sample II 16 19 13 16 18 13 15
To test the estimates of the population variance differ significantly at 5% level?

4. Two samples of sizes 9 and 8 give the sum of the squares of deviations from their respective means equal to
160 and 91 respectively. To test can they be regarded as a drawn from the same normal population.

Chi-Square Test
1. Mechanical engineers, testing a new arc-welding technique, classified welds both with respect to
appearance and an X-ray inspection.

Appearance
Bad Normal Good

X-ray Bad 20 7 3
Normal 13 51 16
Good 7 12 21
Using Chi-square statistic, test for independence using
α =0.05 .

2. Determine whether there really is a relationship between an employee’s performances in the company’s
training program and his or her ultimate success in the job, the company takes a sample of 400 cases from
its very extensive files and obtains the results shown in the following table.

Performance in training program

Below Average Above Total
Average Average

Success in job Poor 23 60 29 112

(employer’s Average 28 79 60 167
rating) Very
9 49 63 121
good
Total
60 188 152 400

Use the 0.01% level of significance to test the null hypothesis that performances in the training program
and success in the job are independent.

Part A

1. List out any two applications of Chi-square test.

2. Define the term critical region in testing hypothesis?

3. Define Type I and Type II errors in the sampling distribution

4. Explain level of significance.

5. Define student’s t test for single mean.

6. Explain the procedure followed in the testing of hypothesis.

7. The real estate agent claims that 60% of all private residence building today is 3-bedroom homes. To
test this claim, a large sample of new residence is inspected; the proportion of these homes with 3
bedrooms is recorded and used as our test statistic. Define the null and alternative hypothesis to be used in
this test.

8. Define Chi-square test for goodness of fit.

9. When do we use large sample tests and Small sample tests?

10. What do you mean by degree of freedom?