OCR S4 2008 June — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2008
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

4 William takes a bus regularly on the same journey, sometimes in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. He wishes to compare morning and afternoon journey times. He records the journey times on 7 randomly chosen mornings and 8 randomly chosen afternoons. The results, each correct to the nearest minute, are as follows, where M denotes a morning time and A denotes an afternoon time.
MAAMMMMMMAAAAAA
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William wishes to test for a difference between the average times of morning and afternoon journeys.
  1. Given that \(s _ { M } ^ { 2 } = 16.5\) and \(s _ { A } ^ { 2 } = 64.5\), with the usual notation, explain why a \(t\)-test is not appropriate in this case.
  2. William chooses a non-parametric test at the \(5 \%\) significance level. Carry out the test, stating the rejection region.