Edexcel S2 2008 January — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2008
SessionJanuary
TopicHypothesis test of a Poisson distribution

  1. (a) Explain what you understand by
    1. a hypothesis test,
    2. a critical region.
    During term time, incoming calls to a school are thought to occur at a rate of 0.45 per minute. To test this, the number of calls during a random 20 minute interval, is recorded.
    (b) Find the critical region for a two-tailed test of the hypothesis that the number of incoming calls occurs at a rate of 0.45 per 1 minute interval. The probability in each tail should be as close to \(2.5 \%\) as possible.
    (c) Write down the actual significance level of the above test. In the school holidays, 1 call occurs in a 10 minute interval.
    (d) Test, at the \(5 \%\) level of significance, whether or not there is evidence that the rate of incoming calls is less during the school holidays than in term time.