Edexcel S3 — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
TopicChi-squared distribution

  1. (a) Explain briefly the method of quota sampling.
    (b) Give one disadvantage of quota sampling compared with stratified sampling.
    (c) Describe a situation in which you would choose to use quota sampling rather than stratified sampling and explain why.
    (2 marks)
  2. Commentators on a game of cricket say that a certain batsman is "playing shots all round the ground". A sports statistician wishes to analyse this claim and records the direction of shots played by the batsman during the course of his innings. She divides the \(360 ^ { \circ }\) around the batsman into six sectors, measuring the angle of each shot clockwise from the line between the wickets, and obtains the following results:
Sector\(0 ^ { \circ } -\)\(45 ^ { \circ } -\)\(90 ^ { \circ } -\)\(180 ^ { \circ } -\)\(270 ^ { \circ } -\)\(315 ^ { \circ } - 360 ^ { \circ }\)
No. of Shots18191520915
Stating your hypotheses clearly and using a \(5 \%\) level of significance test whether or not these data can be modelled by a continuous uniform distribution.
(9 marks)