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ISBN: 9781337672320

Author: BRASE

Publisher: Cengage

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Chapter 10.1, Problem 10P

For Problems 9-17 assume that the distribution of differences d is mound-shaped and symmetric.

Please provide the following information for Problems 9-17.

(a) What is the level of significance? State the null and alternate hypotheses. Will you use a left-tailed, right-tailed, or two-tailed test?

(b) Check Requirements What sampling distribution will you use? What assumptions are you making ? Compute the value of the sample test statistic and corresponding t value.

(d) Based on your answers in parts (a) to (c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis? Are the data statistically significant at level α ?

(e) Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.

In these problems, assume that the distribution of differences is approximately normal.

Note: For degrees of freedom d.f. not in the Student's t table, use the closest d.f that is smaller. In some situations, this choice of d.f. may increase the P-value by a small amount and therefore produce a slightly more ‘‘conservative” answer.

Fishing: Shore or Boat? Is fishing better from a boat or from the shore? Pyramid Lake is located on the Paiute Indian Reservation in Nevada. Presidents, movie stars, and people who just want to catch fish go to Pyramid Lake for really large cutthroat trout. Let row B represent hours per fish caught fishing from the shore, and let row A represent hours per fish caught using a boat. The following data are paired by month from October through April (Source: Pyramid Lake Fisheries, Paiute Reservation, Nevada).

	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Jan.	Feb.	March	April
B: Shore	1.6	1.8	2.0	3.2	3.9	3.6	3.3
A: Boat	1.5	1.4	1.6	2.2	3.3	3.0	3.8

Use a 1% level of significance to test if there is a difference in the population mean hours per fish caught using a boat compared with fishing from the shore.

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