In: Statistics and Probability
Test the claim that the mean GPA of night students is larger than the mean GPA of day students at the .025 significance level.
The null and alternative hypothesis
H0:μN=μD
H1:μN>μD
The Test is Right Tailed
The sample consisted of 30 night students, with a sample mean
GPA of 3.23 and a standard deviation of 0.02, and 60 day students,
with a sample mean GPA of 3.19 and a standard deviation of
0.06.
The test statistic is:
The critical value is:
To find critical values having two methods
First method :
Second method :
critical value = smaller ( n1-1 , n2 -1 )
= smaller ( 30 -1 , 60 -1 )
= smaller ( 29 , 59 )
= 29
so at alpha = 0.025 l.o.s , df = 29 ( right tailed )