CAIE Further Paper 4 2022 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleFurther Paper 4 (Further Paper 4)
Year2022
SessionNovember
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.