OCR S2 2007 June — Question 8

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

8 A random variable \(Y\) is normally distributed with mean \(\mu\) and variance 12.25. Two statisticians carry out significance tests of the hypotheses \(\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu = 63.0 , \mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : \mu > 63.0\).
  1. Statistician \(A\) uses the mean \(\bar { Y }\) of a sample of size 23, and the critical region for his test is \(\bar { Y } > 64.20\). Find the significance level for \(A\) 's test.
  2. Statistician \(B\) uses the mean of a sample of size 50 and a significance level of \(5 \%\).
    (a) Find the critical region for \(B\) 's test.
    (b) Given that \(\mu = 65.0\), find the probability that \(B\) 's test results in a Type II error.
  3. Given that, when \(\mu = 65.0\), the probability that \(A\) 's test results in a Type II error is 0.1365 , state with a reason which test is better.