In: Statistics and Probability
A goal of financial literacy for children is to learn how to manage money wisely. One question is: How much money do children have to manage? A recent study by Schnur Educational Research Associates randomly sampled 15 children between 8 and 10 years old and 18 children between 11 and 14 years old and recorded their monthly allowance. Is it reasonable to conclude that the mean allowance received by children between 11 and 14 years is more than the allowance received by children between 8 and 10 years? Use the 0.01 significance level. What is the p-value?
8–10 Years | 11–14 Years | 8–10 Years | 11–14 Years | |||||||||||
26 | 49 | 26 | 41 | |||||||||||
33 | 44 | 25 | 38 | |||||||||||
30 | 42 | 27 | 44 | |||||||||||
26 | 38 | 29 | 39 | |||||||||||
34 | 39 | 34 | 50 | |||||||||||
26 | 41 | 32 | 49 | |||||||||||
27 | 39 | 41 | ||||||||||||
27 | 38 | 42 | ||||||||||||
30 | 38 | 30 | ||||||||||||
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State the decision rule: H0: μ8-10 Year olds ≥ μ11-14 Year oldsH1: μ8-10 Year olds <μ11-14 Year olds. (Negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
Compute the value of the test statistic. (Negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
a. H0: The children between 8 - 10 years old received equal monthly allowance to childeren between 11-14 years old i.e. μ8-10 Year olds = μ11-14 Year olds
H1: The children between 8 - 10 years old received less monthly allowance to childeren between 11-14 years old
μ8-10 Year olds < μ11-14 Year olds
> Age8_10 = c(26,33,30,26,34,26,27,27,30,26,25,27,29,34,32) > Age11_14 = c(49,44,42,38,39,41,39,38,38,41,38,44,39,50,49,41,42,30) > t.test(Age8_10,Age11_14,alternativr = "greater",conf.level = 0.99) Welch Two Sample t-test data: Age8_10 and Age11_14 t = -8.8587, df = 29.516, p-value = 8.2e-10 alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0 99 percent confidence interval: -16.282678 -8.561766 sample estimates: mean of x mean of y 28.80000 41.22222
the p- value is 8.2e-10 < 0.01, so we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that 11-14 years old received more allowance as compare to 8-10
test statistic is -8.858