OCR S4 2007 June — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

2 Of 9 randomly chosen students attending a lecture, 4 were found to be smokers and 5 were nonsmokers. During the lecture their pulse-rates were measured, with the following results in beats per minute.
Smokers77859098
Non-smokers5964688088
It may be assumed that these two groups of students were random samples from the student populations of smokers and non-smokers. Using a suitable Wilcoxon test at the \(10 \%\) significance level, test whether there is a difference in the median pulse-rates of the two populations.