In: Statistics and Probability
A plastic gear manufacturer is invstigating a new gear, which the company claims it has a mean diameter of 12cm with a standard deviation of .5cm. The company wishes to test the hypothesis Ho: mu=12 against H1: Mu < 12 using a random sample of 16 specimens.
What is the type 1 error if the critical region is defined as x< 11.5cm?
Fine B for the case in which the true mean diameter is 11.25cs
Fine B for the case in which the true mean diameter is 11.5 cm
a)
µ = 12
σ = 0.5
n= 16
X = 11.5
Z = (X - µ )/(σ/√n) = ( 11.5
- 12.00 ) / ( 0.500
/ √ 16 ) = -4.000
P(X ≤ 11.5 ) = P(Z ≤
-4.000 ) = 0.00003167
type I error = 0.00003167
b)
std error of mean, σx = σ/√n =
0.5000 / √ 16 =
0.12500
now, type II error is ,ß = P( x̄ ≥
11.500 given that µ = 11.25
)
= P ( Z > (x̄-true mean)/σx )
=P(Z > ( 11.500 -
11.25 ) / 0.1250 )
= P ( Z > 2.000 )
= 0.0228 [ Excel function:
=1-normsdist(z) ]
c)
now, type II error is ,ß = P( x̄ ≥
11.500 given that µ = 11.5
)
= P ( Z > (x̄-true mean)/σx )
=P(Z > ( 11.500 -
11.5 ) / 0.1250 )
= P ( Z > 0.000 )
= 0.5000 [ Excel function:
=1-normsdist(z) ]