Name Due Wednesday Oct 14 2015 Lab 5 Chapter 6 and Section 7

Name:                                                                         Due Wednesday Oct 14, 2015

Lab 5: Chapter 6 and Section 7.1

Some formulas which might be helpful to you:

Confidence level

90%

95%

99%

Z^*

1.645

1.960

2.576

Normal and t tables can be found on the OnCourse website.

An airline wants to evaluate the depth perception of its pilots over the age of fifty.A random sample of n = 14 airline pilots over the age of fifty are asked to judge the distance between two markers placed 20 feet apart at the opposite end of the laboratory.The population standard deviation is 1.4.The sample data listed here are the pilots’ error (recorded in feet) in judging the distance.

            2.9       2.6       2.9       2.6       2.4       1.3       2.3
            2.2       2.5       2.3       2.8       2.5       2.7       2.6

(1 point)What is the sample mean?(Use either SPSS or a calculator.)

(4 points)Is there evidence that the mean error in depth perception for the company’s pilots over the age of fifty is greater than 2.1?Use = 0.05.(Note: make sure you write the hypotheses, test statistic, P-value and conclusions in terms of the problem.)

(2 points)What is the 90% confidence interval for the mean error in depth perception?

An airline wants to evaluate the depth perception of its pilots over the age of fifty.A random sample of n = 14 airline pilots over the age of fifty are asked to judge the distance between two markers placed 20 feet apart at the opposite end of the laboratory.The sample data listed here are the pilots’ error (recorded in feet) in judging the distance.

            2.9       2.6       2.9       2.6       2.4       1.3       2.3
            2.2       2.5       2.3       2.8       2.5       2.7       2.6

(1 point)How is this problem different from Problem #1?

(4 points)Is there evidence that the mean error in depth perception for the company’s pilots over the age of fifty is greater than 2.1?Use = 0.05 and SPSS to get the results, and paste in the appropriate output.(Note: make sure you write the hypotheses, test statistic, P-value and conclusions in terms of the problem.)

(2 points)What is the 90% confidence interval for the mean error in depth perception?

Is it even appropriate to use the t procedures in #2?We must look at our data to determine this.

(1 point)What is the sample size?

(1 point)According to the robustness guidelines, for this sample size, what do we need our data to look like in order for the t procedures to be appropriate?

(1 point)Show a histogram of the data.Comment on any important features.

(1 point)Show a Normal quantile plot of the data.Comment on any important features.

(2 points) Is it appropriate to use the t procedures for this data? Explain why or why not.

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