Using the same one-tailed test (α = .05), determine if the data indicate that the past four years have had significantly more 90° days than would be expected for a random sample from this population. Write your conclusion in a sentence as it might appear in a research report (i.e. as you've been doing in your homework). At the end of your sentence, be sure to include the test statistic, p-level, and a measure of effect size (Cohen’s d…which you will have to calculate).

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
6th Edition
ISBN:9781119256830
Author:Amos Gilat
Publisher:Amos Gilat
Chapter1: Starting With Matlab
Section: Chapter Questions
Problem 1P
icon
Related questions
Topic Video
Question

Researchers at the National Weather Center in Portland, Maine recorded the number of 90° days each year since records were first kept, starting in 1875. The number of 90° days form a normal-shaped distribution, with a mean of μ = 9.6 days and a standard deviation of σ = 1.9. To see if the data showed any evidence of climate change (and specifically global warming), they also computed the mean number of 90° days for the most recent n = 4 years and obtained a mean number of days for the past four years of  = 12.25 days. Using a one-tailed test with α = .05, the researchers completed the calculations, but they need your help in drawing an appropriate conclusion. (According to their calculations, the standard error is sM = 0.95, and the sample mean of  = 12.25 days corresponds to a z-score of z = 2.79.)

Using the same one-tailed test (α = .05), determine if the data indicate that the past four years have had significantly more 90° days than would be expected for a random sample from this population. Write your conclusion in a sentence as it might appear in a research report (i.e. as you've been doing in your homework). At the end of your sentence, be sure to include the test statistic, p-level, and a measure of effect size (Cohen’s d…which you will have to calculate).

Expert Solution
steps

Step by step

Solved in 4 steps

Blurred answer
Knowledge Booster
Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for Means
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, statistics and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.
Similar questions
  • SEE MORE QUESTIONS
Recommended textbooks for you
MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications
Statistics
ISBN:
9781119256830
Author:
Amos Gilat
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and th…
Probability and Statistics for Engineering and th…
Statistics
ISBN:
9781305251809
Author:
Jay L. Devore
Publisher:
Cengage Learning
Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences (MindTap C…
Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences (MindTap C…
Statistics
ISBN:
9781305504912
Author:
Frederick J Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau
Publisher:
Cengage Learning
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th E…
Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (7th E…
Statistics
ISBN:
9780134683416
Author:
Ron Larson, Betsy Farber
Publisher:
PEARSON
The Basic Practice of Statistics
The Basic Practice of Statistics
Statistics
ISBN:
9781319042578
Author:
David S. Moore, William I. Notz, Michael A. Fligner
Publisher:
W. H. Freeman
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
Statistics
ISBN:
9781319013387
Author:
David S. Moore, George P. McCabe, Bruce A. Craig
Publisher:
W. H. Freeman