OCR S4 2011 June — Question 2

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS4 (Statistics 4)
Year2011
SessionJune
TopicWilcoxon tests

2 A botanist believes that some species of plants produce more flowers at high altitudes than at low altitudes. In order to investigate this belief the botanist randomly samples 11 species of plants each of which occurs at both altitudes. The numbers of flowers on the plants are shown in the table.
Species1234567891011
Number of flowers at low altitude534729654112
Number of flowers at high altitude161081416202115212
  1. Use the Wilcoxon signed rank test at the 5\% significance level to test the botanist's belief.
  2. Explain why the Wilcoxon rank sum test should not be used for this test.