OCR S4 2007 June — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

4 The levels of impurity in a particular alloy were measured using a random sample of 20 specimens. The results, in suitable units, were as follows.
3.002.053.152.653.503.252.853.352.652.75
2.902.202.953.053.653.452.552.152.802.60
  1. Use the sign test, at the \(5 \%\) significance level, to decide if there is evidence that the population median level of impurity is greater than 2.70 .
  2. State what other test might have been used, and give one advantage and one disadvantage this other test has over the sign test.