STF1103 Statistics for Biologi I

Assignment on Kruskal-Wallis test and Friedman Test

Lecturer: Charlie Laman
Question 1
Below are the combined MUET scores for three GPA ranges from random samples of high
school seniors. Use the data to test the hypothesis, at the 5% level of significance, that there is no
difference MUET score distribution among the three groups.
High School GPA

(i)
(ii)

3.51 - 4.0

3.0 - 3.50

0 - 2.99

1220

700

500

1160

600

400

950

700

350

1070

720

400

1110

400

350

1150

860

500

1440

980

830

1280

800

810

Test for the independence of the 3 scores, using the Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test.
If the test is significant, test to see which of the test pairs is/are significant.

Question 2
Here are raw sample data on the women's heights in inches as broken down by various age
groups. Test the null hypothesis that heights have the same distribution for each age group.
Age

20-29

69

30-39 64.75

68.25 68.25 69.25 70.75 68.75 72.5 69.75

67.5

68.25

67

64.75

66.5

64

68.25

40-49

60

61

62

61

62

63

60

61

50-59

50

51

52

51

52

52

53

50

(i)

(ii)
(iii)

Assuming the 4 age groups are independent, test the 4 scores, using the Kruskal-Wallis
non-parametric test
Assuming the 4 age groups are dependent, test the 4 scores, using the Friedman nonparametric test.
If the test is significant for both part (i) and (ii), test to see which of the test pairs is/are
significant
Hint: the 4 age groups is the treatment