CAIE S2 2021 June — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2021
SessionJune
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

2 In the past, the time, in hours, for a particular train journey has had mean 1.40 and standard deviation 0.12 . Following the introduction of some new signals, it is required to test whether the mean journey time has decreased.
  1. State what is meant by a Type II error in this context.
  2. The mean time for a random sample of 50 journeys is found to be 1.36 hours. Assuming that the standard deviation of journey times is still 0.12 hours, test at the \(2.5 \%\) significance level whether the population mean journey time has decreased.
  3. State, with a reason, which of the errors, Type I or Type II, might have been made in the test in part (b).