OCR S2 2014 June — Question 6 12 marks

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2014
SessionJune
Marks12
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypePerform one-tailed hypothesis test

6 In a city the proportion of inhabitants from ethnic group \(\mathbf { Z }\) is known to be \(\mathbf { 0 . 4 }\). A sample of \(\mathbf { 1 2 }\) employees of a large company in this city is obtained and it is found that 2 of them are from ethnic group \(Z\). A test is carried out, at the \(5 \%\) significance level, of whether the proportion of employees in this company from ethnic group \(Z\) is less than in the city as a whole.
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  1. State an assumption that must be made about the sample for a significance test to be valid. [1]
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  2. Describe briefly an appropriate way of obtaining the sample. [2]
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  3. Carry out the test. [7]
  4. A manager believes that the company discriminates against ethnic group \(Z\). Explain whether carrying out the test at the 10\% significance level would be more supportive or less supportive of the manager's belief. [2]