Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 37

Basic Computation: Testing 1 2 Two populations have mound-shaped, symmetric distributions. A random sample of 16 measurements from the first population had a sample mean of 20, with sample standard deviation 2. An independent random sample of 9 measurements from the second population had a sample mean of 19, with a sample standard deviation of 3. Test the claim that the population mean of the first population exceeds that of the second. Use a 5% level of significance.
(a) Check Requirements What distribution does the sample test statistic follow Explain.
(b) State the hypotheses.
(c) Compute
and the corresponding sample test statistic.
(d) Estimate the P -value of the sample test statistic.
(e) Conclude the test.
(f) Interpret the results.
(g) Find a 90% confidence interval for 1 2. Explain the meaning of the confidence interval in the context of the problem.