Edexcel S2 2012 June — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2012
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of binomial distributions
TypeTwo-tailed test critical region

2. A test statistic has a distribution \(\mathrm { B } ( 25 , p )\). Given that $$\mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : p = 0.5 \quad \mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : p \neq 0.5$$
  1. find the critical region for the test statistic such that the probability in each tail is as close as possible to \(2.5 \%\).
  2. State the probability of incorrectly rejecting \(\mathrm { H } _ { 0 }\) using this critical region.