MS 150 Statistics Quiz 09 9.1 • Name: _______________

Suppose we want to do a study of whether the male students at the national campus experience a change in body fat with age during their years at COM-FSM. Suppose we already know that the population mean body fat percentage for males 18 and 19 years old is µ = 15.96

  1. ____________________ What is the null hypothesis H0?
  2. ____________________ What is the alternate hypothesis H1?
  3. Construct a 95% confidence interval for a sample of n = 27 students aged 21 to 22 years old who have a sample mean body fat x = 21.68 and a sample standard deviation of sx = 8.05
    1. Make a sketch of the data normalblankii (3K)
    2. _______ Find c for a 95% confidence interval.
    3. _______ Find the degrees of freedom (df).
    4. _______ Calculate t-critical (tc) using =TINV(1-c,n-1)
    5. _______ Calculate the Error E using E = error_tolerance_tc (1K)
    6. Use the Error E calculated above to calculate the 95% confidence interval from x - E < µ < x + E:
      _________ < µ < _________
    7. The confidence interval for the population mean µ is:
      P( _________ < µ < _________ ) = _________
  4. _________ Is the 18 and 19 year old population mean of µ = 15.96 included in the confidence interval for the sample mean of 21 to 22 year old students?
  5. _________ Is the change in body fat for the male students statistically significant?
  6. __________________ Do we reject the null hypothesis H0 of no change or fail to reject the null hypothesis?
  7. We can determine the largest confidence level c that just reaches the 15.96 value by calculating a t-statistic from the population value, determining the area in the tails beyond the t-statistic, and then calculating the corresponding c. Use sample and population data above to calculate the t-statistic (t):
    xbartot (1K) = _______________
  8. Calculate the two-tail area beyond the t-statistic (t) using:
    =TDIST(ABS(t-statistic),degrees of freedom,2)
    = _______________ (this is also called the p value)
  9. ___________ Calculate (1 - p value) to determine the largest confidence level c we have in this change.