WJEC Further Unit 5 2024 June — Question 2 9 marks

Exam BoardWJEC
ModuleFurther Unit 5 (Further Unit 5)
Year2024
SessionJune
Marks9
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TopicWilcoxon tests
TypeWilcoxon signed-rank test (single sample)
DifficultyStandard +0.8 This is a Further Maths statistics question requiring a Wilcoxon signed-rank test with careful handling of the hypothesized median. Students must filter the data, calculate signed ranks correctly, find critical values from tables, and interpret results. The data manipulation and proper test execution require more sophistication than standard A-level, but it's a relatively standard application of the Wilcoxon test once set up correctly.
Spec5.07b Sign test: and Wilcoxon signed-rank

In country A, the median daily caffeine intake per student who drinks coffee is 120 mg. A university professor who oversees a foreign exchange programme believes that students visiting from country B drink more coffee and therefore have a greater daily caffeine intake from coffee. On a randomly chosen day, the caffeine intake, in mg, from coffee consumption by each of 15 randomly selected students from country B is given below. 136 \quad 149 \quad 202 \quad 0 \quad 110 \quad 0 \quad 100 \quad 180 0 \quad 187 \quad 0 \quad 0 \quad 138 \quad 197 \quad 115 The professor suspects that the students with zero caffeine intake do not drink coffee, and decides to ignore those students and instead focus on the coffee-drinking students.
  1. Conduct an appropriate Wilcoxon test at a significance level as close to 5\% as possible. State your conclusion in context. [8]
  2. State one limitation of this investigation. [1]

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In country A, the median daily caffeine intake per student who drinks coffee is 120 mg. A university professor who oversees a foreign exchange programme believes that students visiting from country B drink more coffee and therefore have a greater daily caffeine intake from coffee.

On a randomly chosen day, the caffeine intake, in mg, from coffee consumption by each of 15 randomly selected students from country B is given below.

136 \quad 149 \quad 202 \quad 0 \quad 110 \quad 0 \quad 100 \quad 180

0 \quad 187 \quad 0 \quad 0 \quad 138 \quad 197 \quad 115

The professor suspects that the students with zero caffeine intake do not drink coffee, and decides to ignore those students and instead focus on the coffee-drinking students.

\begin{enumerate}[label=(\alph*)]
\item Conduct an appropriate Wilcoxon test at a significance level as close to 5\% as possible. State your conclusion in context. [8]

\item State one limitation of this investigation. [1]
\end{enumerate}

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