In: Statistics and Probability
A manufacturer claims that the average tar content of a certain kind of cigarette is μ = 14.0. In an attempt to show that it differs from this value, five measurements are made of the tar content (mg per cigarette):
14.5 | 14.2 | 14.4 | 14.3 | 14.6 |
Construct a 99% confidence interval for the variance of the population sampled.
We have for given data,
Sample variance =0.025
Sample standard deviation=0.158
Sample size =5
Degree of freedom =n-1=4
Level of significance given =1-0.99=0.01
Chi square critical value for lower tail=0.207
Chi square critical value for upper tail=14.86
We can use here confidence interval formula for population
variance
=(0.0067,0.4831)
Lower confidence limit for population variance=
0.0067
Upper confidence limit for population variance =0.4831