OCR S2 2007 June — Question 6

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

6 In a rearrangement code, the letters of a message are rearranged so that the frequency with which any particular letter appears is the same as in the original message. In ordinary German the letter \(e\) appears \(19 \%\) of the time. A certain encoded message of 20 letters contains one letter \(e\).
  1. Using an exact binomial distribution, test at the \(10 \%\) significance level whether there is evidence that the proportion of the letter \(e\) in the language from which this message is a sample is less than in German, i.e., less than \(19 \%\).
  2. Give a reason why a binomial distribution might not be an appropriate model in this context.