OCR S3 2010 January — Question 6

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2010
SessionJanuary
TopicWilcoxon tests

6 The deterioration of a certain drug over time was investigated as follows. The drug strength was measured in each of a random sample of 8 bottles containing the drug. These were stored for two years and the strengths were then re-measured. The original and final strengths, in suitable units, are shown in the following table.
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Original strength8.79.49.28.99.68.29.98.8
Final strength8.19.09.08.89.38.09.58.5
  1. Stating any required assumption, test at the \(5 \%\) significance level whether the mean strength has decreased by more than 0.2 over the two years.
  2. Calculate a 95\% confidence interval for the mean reduction in strength over the two years.