In: Statistics and Probability
A copy company uses ten photocopy machines—machines 1 to 5 are model A and machines 6 to 10 are model B. To determine which model to purchase in the future, office managers tabulated the average number of errors per day that each machine made last month, resulting in the following data. You are hired for the statistical consulting on the decision. What would be your advice on the future decision on purchasing a new copy machine?
Machine ID (Model A) |
Error |
Machine ID (Model B) |
Error |
|
1 |
4 |
6 |
2 |
|
2 |
2 |
7 |
2 |
|
3 |
3 |
8 |
1 |
|
4 |
2 |
9 |
2 |
|
5 |
4 |
10 |
1 |
Conduct a formal significance test and specify the four steps of hypothesis testing, include all formulas.