Assignment 1: Binomial Test

1. The following are defective (D) and non defective (N) electric cable produced in the given order by a certain
machine in a manufacturing industry:

D N DD N D N D NN D NN DD NN D N DD NNNN D

Test whether defective and non defective cables are equally produced. Use Binomial test at the 5% level of
significance.

2. 100 workers of sales house willing to express opinion of cell phones, 40 expressed performance to brand NOKIA
and 60 for brand OPPO. Are both brand of cell phone equally popular at 5% level of significance?

Assignment 2: Run Test

1. A random sample of 15 adults living in a small town is selected to estimate the proportion of voting favoring a
certain candidates for Mayer. Each individual was also asked if he or she was a college graduate. By letting Y and N
designate the response of yes and no to the education question, the following sequence was obtained NNNN YY N
YY N Y NNNN. Use the run test to determine if the sequence supports the condition that the sample was selected at
random. [Ans: r = 7, insignificant]

2. In production line touch screen are inspected periodically for defectives. The following is sequence of defective
item D and non-defective item N produced by production line.

DD NNN D NN DD NNNNN DDD NN D NNNN D N D

Use run test with a significance level 0.05 to determine whether the defectives are occurring at random order. [Ans: r
= 13, insignificant]

3. The following are the number of IT students absent from a college on 24 consecutive college days: 29, 25, 31, 28,
30, 28, 33, 31, 35, 29, 31, 33, 35, 28, 36, 30, 33, 26, 30, 28, 32, 31, 38 and 27. Test for randomness at the 0.01 level
of significance. [Ans: z = 0.45, insignificant]

4. The height (in inches) of 15 football players is as follows:

65.3, 67.7, 68.4, 71, 70.4, 67, 69.8, 64, 67.6, 71.5, 64.4, 63.6, 66.8, 70.4 and 69

Test whether the order of the heights is random or not. Use 1% level of significance. [Ans: z = 0, insignificant]

Assignment 3: Kolmogorov-Smirnov one sample test

1. A game consists of four pairs of color cards. Twenty chimpanzees of same age were taught the matching game of
color cards for a specified period of time. At the end of the training 4 pairs of color cards are given to each of the
chimpanzee for matching. The results were as follows:

Matched set 0 1 2 3 4

Frequency 1 0 5 7 7

Does chimpanzee recognize colors? Use Kolmogorov-Smirnov test at 5% level of significance.

Assignment 4: Kolmogorov-Smirnov two sample test

1. Amount of time required to design website by software developers A and B are found as follows.

Time (hrs) 0–4 4–8 8 – 12 12 – 16 16 – 20

Number of website designed by A 2 7 12 5 4

Number of website designed by B 6 9 8 4 3

Does A take more time than B to design website? Use Kolmogorov-Smirnov test at 5% level of significance. [Ans:
D = 0.2, sig.]

2. Two independent samples of 26 junior programming and 25 senior programming smokers selected from a
software company used to smoke following number of cigarettes per day.

Number of cigarettes 0–2 2–4 4–6 6–8 8 – 10 10 –12 12 –14

Number of junior programmer 7 6 4 2 2 3 2

Number of junior programmer 5 4 6 3 4 2 1

Using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test identify if there is any significance between junior and senior programmer? Use
0.05 level of significance. [Ans: D = 0.014, sig.]

Assignment 5: Median test

1. The same C programming papers were marked by two teachers A and B. The final marks were recorded as
follows:

Teacher A 73 89 82 43 80 73 66 45 93 36 77 60

Teacher B 88 78 91 48 85 74 77 31 78 62 76 77

Using median test at 5% level of significance to determine if the marks distributions of two teachers differ
significantly? [Ans: 0.177, insig]

2. The following are the performance score of 10 person under two software training X and Y.

X 46 45 32 42 39 48 49 30 51 34

Y 44 40 59 47 55 50 47 71 43 55

Use median test to test the effectiveness of two training. [Ans: 0.089, insig]

3. The length of life in kilowatt hours of some type of electronic Neon tube and Helium tube made by two
manufacturers were as follows.
 Tube Length of life

Neon 96 23 24 200 7 108 76 140 39 165 61 25 41 99

8

Helium 11 25 47 20 34 101 25 68 17 59 178 30 83 75 45 28

Compare by using Median test at 5% level of significance, the median lives of the electronic tubes made by
manufacturers Neon and Helium. [Ans: 2.14, insig]

4. A quality controller wishes to determine whether there is a difference in outcome between two different tools of
software I and II. The following data shows the outcome of two different tools. Can the controller conclude that a
difference exists? Use median test at 5% level of significance.

Software I 24.0 16.7 22.8 19.8 18.9

Software II 23.2 19.8 18.1 17.6 20.2 17.8

[Ans: p = 0.6, insig]

Assignment 6: Chi-square test

1. A die was rolled for 60 times and observed the following outcomes:

Side 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
Number of times observed 8 9 13 7 15 8 60
Is the die fair? Test the hypothesis at 5% level of significance. [Ans: 4.5, insig]

2. A certain chemical plant processes sea water to collect sodium chloride and magnesium. From scientific analysis,
sea water is known to contain sodium chloride, magnesium and other elements in the ratio of 62: 4: 34. A sample of
200 tons of sea water resulted in 130 tons of sodium chloride and 6 tons of magnesium. Are these data consistent
with the scientific model at 5% level of significance? [Ans: 1.025, insig]

3. A group of 150 college students were asked to indicate their most liked mobile brand among six different well
known film actors viz., A, B, C, D, E and F in order to ascertain their relative popularity. The observed frequency
data were as follows:

Brand A B C D E F Total
Frequencie 24 20 32 25 28 21 150
s
Test at 5% level of significance whether all brands are equally popular. [Ans: 4, insig]

4. Genetic theory states that children having one parent of blood type A and other of blood type B will always be
one of three types; A, AB, B and the proportion of three types will on an average be as 1: 2: 1. A report states that
out of 300 children having one A parent and other B parent, 30% were found to be type A, 45% type AB and
remainder type B. Test the hypothesis at 5% level of significance. [Ans: 4.16, insig]

5. A publishing house got a 500 page book composed for printing. Before final printing the first draft was sent for
proof reading. The proof reader detected the number of misprints X on each pages tabulated as follows. Test
whether Poisson distribution fits the data. [Ans: 9.32, sig]
 No. of misprint page 0 1 2 3 4 5
No. of pages 221 167 70 30 7 3
6. In a 50 random sample of a manufactured mice’s, the number of samples containing defective mice is noted
below:

No. of defective mice 0 1 2 3 4 5

Frequencies 4 13 17 12 3 1
Can the binomial distribution be a good with p = 0.30? [Ans: 11.92, sig]

7. The number of telephone calls received per day over a period of 100 days is shown in the table below.

Number of calls 0 1 2 3
Number of days 45 25 20 10
Carry out chi-square test to test the hypothesis that the number of calls received per day has s Binomial distribution
at 5% level of significance. [Ans: 12.7, sig]

Assignment 7: Chi-square test for independence of attributes

1. From the following data can you conclude that there is association between the purchase of brand and
geographical region?

Region
Central Eastern Western
Purchase the brand 40 55 45
Do not purchase brand 60 45 55
Use 5% level of significance.

2. Do the following data provide evidence of the effectiveness of inoculation in preventing tuberculosis?

Attacked Not attacked Total

Inoculated 20 300 320
Not inoculated 80 600 680
Total 100 900 1000

3. A sample of 500 workers of a factory according to gender and nature of work is as follows:

Nature of work Gender Total

Male Female
Technical 200 100 300
Non-technical 4 150 154
Total 204 250 454
Test at 5% level of significance, whether exists a relationship between gender and nature of work.

4. Test of the fidelity and selectivity of 190 digital radio receivers produced the results show in table:

Selectivity Fidelity
Low Average High Total (RT)
Low 6 12 32 50
Average 33 61 18 112
High 13 15 0 28
Total (CT) 52 88 50 380
Use α = 0.01 to test whether there is relationship (dependent) between fidelity and selectivity.
5. Marketing manager of a company is concerned that the brand’s share is unevenly distributed throughout the
country. In a survey of 100 consumers in each geographical regions of the country, the following result was
obtained:

Region
Brand North East North West South East South West Total
Purchase the brand 40 55 45 50 190
Do not purchase brand 60 45 55 50 210
Total 100 100 100 100 400
Is the marketing managers concern correct? Use 5% level of significance.

Assignment 8: Mann-Whitney U-Test

1. Test the hypothesis of no difference between the ages of male and female employees of a certain company, using
the Mann-Whitney U test for the sample data below. Use the 0.01 level of significance.

Male 31 25 38 33 42 40 44 26 43 35
Female 44 3 34 47 35 32 35 47 48 34

2. The HRD chief of an organization wants to whether there in any significant difference in the marks obtained by
12 trainee officers in the papers on Nepalese and Global perspectives conducted after the induction training
(Nepalese perspective: xi, Global perspective: yi)

(72, 70) (82, 79) (78, 69) (80, 74) (64, 66) (78, 75)
(85, 86) (83, 77) (83, 88) (94, 90) (78, 72) (84, 82)
Test the average marks obtained in the paper on Nepalese perspective is more than the average marks in the Global
perspective. Use Mann Whitney U test.

3. The final exam scores obtained by two groups of students, where students of group A were taught using method A
and those of group B were taught using method B, are summarized below. Use Mann Whitney test to determine
where or not the final exam scores of two groups are different.

Group-A 55 59 61 64 64 70 73 75 76 82 83 95
Group-B 65 77 80 80 84 86 88 91 91 91

Assignment 9: Wilcoxon Matched Pair Signed-Ranked Test

1. To evaluate a speed reading course, a group of 10 subjects was asked to read two comparable articles- one before
the course and one after the course. Their score on reading test are follows.

Before course(x) 57 80 64 72 90 59 76 98 70 83
After course (y) 60 90 62 79 95 58 80 99 75 94
Test whether the course is beneficial using the Wilcoxon Singed Rank test at 5% level, of significance given that
(T+>44/H0)= 0.042 where T+ is the sum of the positive ranks of the difference di = (yi – xi).

2. Write down the rationale and method of Wilcoxon matched pairs signed rank test. Seven prospective graduate
students took a test twice with the following scores.

First attempt 470 530 610 440 600 590 580

Second attempt 510 550 600 490 565 620 598
(a) Compute the value of T where T + is the sum of ranks of the positive differences (second attempt-first attempt)
and T- is the sum of ranks of the negative differences using ‘T’ test statistic carry out the test of the following
hypothesis at level 0.05. HO: there is no statistical difference between the first and second attempt score. H 1: second
attempt score tends to be larger than the first attempt score.

(b) Use Mann-Whitney U test to test if there is a difference between the two average numbers of first attempt and
second attempts.

Assignment 10: Kruskal Wallis H Test

1. Describe the function and the procedure of the Kruskal-Wallis one-way ANOVA test by ranks. The original data
of three independent samples were collectively converted to ranks as shown in the adjacent table. Set up appropriate
null and alternative hypotheses and carry out the Kruskal-Wallis test at 5% level.

Sample 1 1 4 6 10 11 14 16 19
Sample 2 2 3 7 8 13 15 17 21
Sample 3 8 9 12 18 20 22 23 24

2. An ecological study was conducted to compare the rate of growth of vegetation at four swampy undeveloped sites
and to determine the cause of any differences that might be observed. Part of the study involved measuring the leaf
lengths of a particular plant species on a pre-selected date in May. Six plants were randomly selected at each of the
four sites to be used in the comparison. The data in the table are the mean length of per plant (in cm) for a random
sample of ten leaves per plant.

Location Mean Leaf Length (cm)

1 5.7 6.3 6.1 6.0 5.8 6.2
2 6.2 5.3 5.7 6.0 5.2 5.5
3 5.4 5.0 6.0 5.6 4.9 5.2
4 3.7 3.2 3.9 4.0 3.5 3.6
Using Kruskal-wallis test, do the data provide the sufficient evidence to indicate a difference in mean leaf lengths
among the four locations?

3. Describe the function and the procedure of the Kruskal-Wallis one-way ANOVA test by ranks. Three different
feeds are to be compared to determine that they have same distribution of weight gains on experimental animals
(such as pig). Suppose 12 animals are divided at random into three groups of four animals and each group at
different feed. The following results are obtained:

Feed Weight gain

1 104 110 106 102
2 112 117 115 114
3 120 126 121 128
Test that the median weight gains due to three feeds are same by KruskalWallis test at 5% level of significance.

Assignment 11: Friedman F Test

1. The table given below shows reaction time (in second) data from 6 objects (treatments) each of which was tested
under three conditions I, II and III:

Object
Condition A B C D E F
I 356 590 665 450 540 500
 II 401 564 667 560 570 525
III 455 570 650 575 560 550
Apply the Friedman test to test, whether reaction time of each object is same or not at 5% level of significance?

Assignment 12: Cochran Q test

1. Three puzzles are given to 8 students for solving. Performance of students in each puzzles is as follows:

Students No.
Puzzles A B C D E F G H
P1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
P2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
P3 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
Use Cochran’s Q-test to know if the degree of difficulty of each puzzle is the same. Where 1 = success and 0 =
failure.

2. Zigzag leaf-hopper that damages the crop plant is havoc to rural peasants of Western Nepal. To get rid from this
problem the state government performed an experiment to study the effect of four killing agents (insecticides) on the
zigzag leaf-hopper. 32 zigzag leaf-hoppers were cased randomly into bottles grouped into 8 of 4 (matched set) each
and certain constant level of each of the insecticide was injected to one bottle of a group and exposed for a specified
period of time. The results of the experiment were as follows:

Insecticide Zigzag leaf-hopper dead or alive

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
W D D D A D D D D
X D A D D D D D D
Y A A A A A D A D
Z D A D D A D D A

Do the insecticides differ significantly so far as killing of zigzag leaf-hopper is concerned? Where D = Dead and A
= Alive leaf-hopper.