AQA Further Paper 3 Statistics 2023 June — Question 4

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleFurther Paper 3 Statistics (Further Paper 3 Statistics)
Year2023
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

4 The random variable \(X\) has a normal distribution with unknown mean \(\mu\) and unknown variance \(\sigma ^ { 2 }\) A random sample of 8 observations of \(X\) has mean \(\bar { x } = 101.5\) and gives the unbiased estimate of the variance as \(s ^ { 2 } = 4.8\) The random sample is used to conduct a hypothesis test at the \(10 \%\) level of significance with the hypotheses $$\begin{aligned} & \mathrm { H } _ { 0 } : \mu = 100
& \mathrm { H } _ { 1 } : \mu \neq 100 \end{aligned}$$ Carry out the hypothesis test.