OCR S2 2010 January — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2010
SessionJanuary
TopicPoisson Distribution
TypePoisson hypothesis test

5 The number of customers arriving at a store between 8.50 am and 9 am on Saturday mornings is a random variable which can be modelled by the distribution \(\operatorname { Po } ( 11.0 )\). Following a series of price cuts, on one particular Saturday morning 19 customers arrive between 8.50 am and 9 am . The store's management claims, first, that the mean number of customers has increased, and second, that this is due to the price cuts.
  1. Test the first part of the claim, at the \(5 \%\) significance level.
  2. Comment on the second part of the claim.