CAIE Further Paper 4 2022 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleFurther Paper 4 (Further Paper 4)
Year2022
SessionNovember
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TopicWilcoxon tests

3 A large college is holding a piano competition. Each student has played a particular piece of music and two judges have each awarded a mark out of 80 . The marks awarded to a random sample of 14 students are shown in the following table.
Student\(A\)\(B\)\(C\)\(D\)\(E\)\(F\)\(G\)\(H\)\(I\)\(J\)\(K\)\(L\)\(M\)\(N\)
Judge 17954637469525057554263555648
Judge 27562607376413151455549506536
  1. One of the students claims that on average Judge 1 is awarding higher marks than Judge 2. Carry out a Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test at the 5\% significance level to test whether the data supports the student's claim.
  2. Give a reason why it is preferable to use a Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test in this situation rather than a paired sample \(t\)-test.

3 A large college is holding a piano competition. Each student has played a particular piece of music and two judges have each awarded a mark out of 80 . The marks awarded to a random sample of 14 students are shown in the following table.

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Student & $A$ & $B$ & $C$ & $D$ & $E$ & $F$ & $G$ & $H$ & $I$ & $J$ & $K$ & $L$ & $M$ & $N$ \\
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Judge 1 & 79 & 54 & 63 & 74 & 69 & 52 & 50 & 57 & 55 & 42 & 63 & 55 & 56 & 48 \\
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Judge 2 & 75 & 62 & 60 & 73 & 76 & 41 & 31 & 51 & 45 & 55 & 49 & 50 & 65 & 36 \\
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(a) One of the students claims that on average Judge 1 is awarding higher marks than Judge 2. Carry out a Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test at the 5\% significance level to test whether the data supports the student's claim.\\

(b) Give a reason why it is preferable to use a Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank test in this situation rather than a paired sample $t$-test.\\

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