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Chapter
Eleven
McGraw-Hill/Irwin
© 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., All Rights Reserved.
Two-Sample Tests of Two-Sample Tests of HypothesisHypothesis
Pages 313-322 & 327-30
Does the
distribution of the differences in sample
means have a
mean of 0?
Independent Samples
The formula for computing the value of z is:
2
22
1
21
21
n
s
n
s
XXz
L.A.Times recently reported that the mean household income in Orange county is $38,000 with a SD of $6,000 for a sample of 40 households. The same article reported the mean income in LA county is $35,000 with a SD of $7,000 for a sample of 35 households. At the .01 significance level can we conclude the mean income in Orange county is more?
98.1
35
)000,7($
40
)000,6($
000,35$000,38$22
z
Because the computed Z of 1.98 < critical Z of 2.33, the decision is to not reject the null hypothesis. We cannot conclude that the mean household income in Orange county is larger.
Dependent samples
These are samples that are paired or related in some fashion.
Eg.If you wish to measure the effectiveness of an
exercise program on work absenteeism, you would count the number of days missed by the same employees before and after the exercise program.
td
s nd
/
dsd
When samples are dependent, use the Paired t-Test Statistic (Formula 11-7, Page 328):
where is the mean of the differences is the standard deviation of the differencesn is the number of pairs
Note similarity tons
Xt
/
Practice!Problem 41, Page 338
Employee Before After
1 6 5
2 6 2
3 7 1
4 7 3
5 4 3
6 3 6
7 5 3
8 6 7
Measuring effect of exercise program on absenteeism
Step 4
H0 is rejected if
t > 1.895;
or if p-value > .05.
We use the t distribution with n-1 or 7 degrees of freedom.
Step 2 The stated
significance level is .05.
Step 3 The appropriate test statistic is the paired
t-test.
Step 1Ho: d ≤ 0H1: d > 0
Step 5Perform the calculations
and make a decision.
td
s nd
/
dSd
= d / (Sd/√n)(for 1 tail)
td
s nd
/
Solving for using Excel
Conclusion: Exercise program did not reduce absenteeism.
You can get Excel to do all the calculations for your case using i) Tools|Descriptive Statististics|95%
ii) Tools|t-Paired Two Sample for Means
Shortcut!
(>0.05)
Do not reject H0