In: Statistics and Probability
10-7. “The See Me” marketing agency wants to determine if time of day for a television advertisement influences website searches for a product. They have extracted the number of website searches occurring during a one-hour period after an advertisement was aired for a random sample of 30 day and 30 evening advertisements. The data is shown in the accompanying table and contained in the accompanying Excel file.
Day Searches | Evening Searches | |||||
96670 | 118379 | |||||
97855 | 111005 | |||||
96368 | 100482 | |||||
98465 | 122160 | |||||
98550 | 117158 | |||||
101623 | 101556 | |||||
95753 | 98875 | |||||
102036 | 104384 | |||||
99475 | 110932 | |||||
103780 | 101963 | |||||
97608 | 123513 | |||||
99859 | 102195 | |||||
101764 | 111388 | |||||
97287 | 116287 | |||||
98066 | 119660 | |||||
95390 | 112553 | |||||
96125 | 98245 | |||||
96767 | 98062 | |||||
99494 | 101657 | |||||
102498 | 106451 | |||||
99260 | 104247 | |||||
102020 | 105507 | |||||
102468 | 118339 | |||||
96543 | 109847 | |||||
102491 | 123996 | |||||
96557 | 122545 | |||||
102627 | 113248 | |||||
95048 | 104941 | |||||
96969 | 111829 | |||||
95103 | 114721 | |||||
(Samples 1 and 2 represent website searches for daytime and
nighttime advertisements, respectively.)
a. Set up the hypotheses to test whether the mean
number of website searches differs between the day and evening
advertisements.
H0: μ1 − μ2 = 0; HA: μ1 − μ2 ≠ 0
H0: μ1 − μ2 ≥ 0; HA: μ1 − μ2 < 0
H0: μ1 − μ2 ≤ 0; HA: μ1 − μ2 > 0
p-value ≤ 0.01
0.01 < p-value ≤ 0.02
0.02 < p-value ≤ 0.05
0.05 < p-value ≤ 0.10
p-value > 0.10
(Reject or Do Not Reject) Ho at the 5% significance level, we conclude that the mean number of website searches (Differs, not differ) between the day and evening advertisements.
Sol:
Instal analysis toolpak in excel
Go to data>data analysis>t test assuming unequal variance
we get
From output:
ANSWER(A)
H0: μ1 − μ2 = 0; HA: μ1 − μ2 ≠ 0
ANSWER(b-1)
t=-7.249
ANSWER(B-2)
p=0.0000
p-value ≤ 0.01
ANSWER(C)
Reject Ho at the 5% significance level, we conclude that the mean number of website searches (Differs) between the day and evening advertisements.