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The document outlines a tutorial for a statistics course, focusing on hypothesis testing and variance analysis. It includes five statistical problems involving claims about proportions, poverty prevalence, vitamin variance, and population variances. Each problem specifies the sample sizes, significance levels, and the data required for analysis.

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Tutorial 10 (1)

The document outlines a tutorial for a statistics course, focusing on hypothesis testing and variance analysis. It includes five statistical problems involving claims about proportions, poverty prevalence, vitamin variance, and population variances. Each problem specifies the sample sizes, significance levels, and the data required for analysis.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

STATISTICAL INFERENCE 1: HSTS111


TUTORIAL 10

1. A dietician claimed the 42% of children in a certain district were


undernourished. In order to verify this claim a random sample of 800 children
was taken and 240 of them were found undernourished. Test the dietician’s
claim at 3% level of significance.

2. A random sample of 480 urban adolescents revealed that 196 of them were to
vote supporting a law supporting abortion. Similarly, 288 out of another random
sample of 620 rural adolescents were in support of abortion. Test at 5% level
of significance whether there is no significant difference in the two proportions.

3. In a study to determine the prevalence of poverty in rural and urban areas, a


sample of 280 households was taken in urban areas and 99 of them were
classified as poor. A sample of 600 households from the rural areas gave 148
of them were classified as poor. Test at the 2% level of significance whether
poverty is high in the urban areas than in rural areas.

4. The following data are amounts (in grams) of a certain vitamin found in raw
milk.
7.97 7.83 7.56 6.15 7.99 7.28 8.11
8.09 7.12 6.69 7.54 7.35 4.55 6.77

Is there enough evidence to conclude that the variance of the vitamin is 1.2𝑔2 ?
Use ∝= 0.05.

5. Consider the following samples from two normal populations: Test whether the
two population variances are different. Use ∝= 0.05

Sample 1: 16 10 24 9 6 16 22
Sample 2: 27 17 10 32 9 15

(a) Test whether the two population variances are different. Use ∝= 0.05
𝜎12
(b) Construct a 95% confidence interval for .
𝜎22
(c) Use results in (b) to test 𝐻0 : 𝜎12 = 𝜎22 against 𝐻1 : 𝜎12 ≠ 𝜎22 .

END OF TUTORIAL

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