In: Statistics and Probability
A special bumper was installed on selected vehicles in a large fleet. The dollar cost of body repairs was recorded for all vehicles that were involved in accidents over a 1-year period. Those with the special bumper are the test group and the other vehicles are the control group, shown below. Each "repair incident" is defined as an invoice (which might include more than one separate type of damage).
Statistic | Test Group | Control Group | ||||||||
Mean Damage | X¯¯¯1X¯1 | = | $ | 1,153 | X¯¯¯2X¯2 | = | $ | 1,751 | ||
Sample Std. Dev. | s1 | = | $ | 663 | s2 | = | $ | 820 | ||
Repair Incidents | n1 | = | 16 | n2 | = | 14 | ||||
Source: Unpublished study by Thomas W. Lauer and Floyd G.
Willoughby.
(a) Construct a 99 percent confidence interval for
the true difference of the means assuming equal variances.
(Round your final answers to 3 decimal
places. Negative values should be indicated by a
minus sign.)
The 99% confidence interval is from ________ to ______.
(b) Repeat part (a), using the assumption of
unequal variances with Welch's formula for d.f.
(Round the calculation for Welch's df to the nearest
integer. Round your final answers to 3 decimal places. Negative
values should be indicated by a minus sign.)
The 99% confidence interval is from ______ to _______.
(c) Did the assumption about variances change the
conclusion? Yes? No?
(d) Construct separate 99% confidence intervals for each mean. (Round your intermediate tcrit value to 3 decimal places. Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)
Mean Damage | Confidence Interval |
x¯1=$1,153x¯1=$1,153 | ($ _____ , $ ______ ) |
x¯2=$1,751x¯2=$1,751 | ($ _____ , $ ______ ) |