IE300 CL1 Analysis of Data Assignment #9 Due Date: December 9, 2013

INSTRUCTIONS: This assignment must be turned in during the first ten minutes of lecture (2:00-2:10PM in 217 Noyes Lab) on the due date. No late submissions will be accepted. As stated in the syllabus, this assignment may be submitted in groups of up to three students (see the syllabus for guidelines and restrictions). As a result, discussion of each of the questions is strongly encouraged among your group. Present and explain your solutions clearly. Any multi-page submissions that are not stapled will receive a 5 point deduction.

QUESTION 1: A plastics company advertises plastic bars made of a new polymer as having average tensile strength of 25 MPa. A consumer group would like to assess whether there is evidence that the average tensile strength of bars sold by the company is lower than the advertised value. Because these bars are expensive, and measuring tensile strength destroys the bars, the group can only afford to test the tensile strengths of nine randomly-selected bars. It is assumed that tensile strengths of bars are normally distributed. The measured tensile strengths (in MPa) of these nine bars are given below: 26.728, 25.951, 25.963, (a) (b) (c) 25.761, 21.397, 25.314, 22.970, 23.281, 22.080

Formulate an appropriate hypothesis test to help the consumer group investigate their hypothesis, using = 0.05, and use the sample data to draw a conclusion. What is the observed significance level for the hypothesis test you conducted in Part (a)? Suppose that the true mean tensile strength is 24.5 MPa. Compute for the hypothesis test formulated in Part (a).

QUESTION 2: To test the computation time of a particular algorithm, an engineer runs this algorithm on fifty different computers. Each computer has the same hardware, and hence, the run time on each computer is assumed to be an IID random variable. The engineer would like to investigate whether there is evidence that the average run time exceeds 5 seconds. The fifty run times are given in the data file posted on Compass under the name HW9_DATA. (a) (b) Find the sample variance of the measured run times. [NOTE: You will need to use sample variance as an estimate for population variance in the rest of this problem.] Suppose that the engineer decides that he will conclude that the average run time exceeds 5 seconds if the sample mean exceeds 5.3 seconds. Formulate a hypothesis test corresponding to this scenario. What is the value of for this hypothesis test? Re-solve Part (b) if the engineer draws this conclusion if the sample mean exceeds 5.8 seconds. Re-solve Part (b) if the engineer draws this conclusion if the sample mean exceeds 5.1 seconds. Consider the hypothesis test formulated in Part (b). What is the value of if the true mean is 6 seconds? Re-solve part (e) if the true mean is 5.5 seconds. Re-solve part (e) if the true mean is 5.1 seconds. Compute the sample mean of the measured run times, and consider the hypothesis test formulated in Part (b). What is the observed significance level?

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