Department of Statistics
SE311
Sheet (2)
“Nonparametric procedures for one-sample and two related samples”
1- State if the following statements are “True” or “False” and correct the false
statement
a- The Wilcoxon test and the sign test can be used for the same purpose.
b- The sign test is based on the magnitude of differences.
c- The Wilcoxon test assumes that the measurement scale is at least interval.
d- The sign test can be used for paired observations for testing if the second trial has
the same mean as the first one.
e- The sign test can be used for all different measurement scales.
2- Which of the following is not correct for the sign test:
a- Observations are assumed to be independent.
b- It is used for testing the hypothesis about the median of the population.
c- It can be used for nominal variables.
d- It is used for comparing probability of positive and negative differences in two
related populations.
e- It reduces the data to a plus, minus or a tie then the binomial test is applied.
3- A famous nominative wants to know the public opinion about his new program. He
draw a random sample of 16 persons, the following data is their opinion:
Person 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Opinion A D N SD SA N N A SA D A SA D SD A D
(SA= strongly agree, A= agree, N= neutral, D= disagree, SD= strongly disagree)
The nominative wants to test if the opinion differs from neutral. Choose the correct
answer using the previous information.
3-1- A suitable test to answer the above question is:
a- The sign test b- Wilcoxon test
c- Both of them d- None of them
3-2- The alternative hypothesis is .......................
a- =Neutral b- c- c- None of them
3-3- The calculated value of the test statistic equals
a- 4 b- 6 c- 8 d- None of them
3-4- The corresponding p_value equals
a- 0.01 b- 0.1 c- 1 d- None of them
3-5- Accordingly, the final decision is
a- Reject . b- Do not reject .
4- The local government in a certain city has implemented a new poverty-alleviation
intervention program in several districts. They do not know if the new program works
better or worse than the old one. To evaluate the program, they decided to compare the
percentage of successful interventions this year after implementing the program with
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those from last year before its implementation in a sample of 12 districts. They got the
following results:
District 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
% Succssful Last year 31 14 53 18 21 44 12 36 22 29 17 40
interventions This year 31 14 50 30 28 48 35 32 23 34 27 42
1- The alternative hypothesis is:
a- b- c-
2- the sample size after excluding the tied pairs is
a- 6 b- 8 c- 10
3- The test statistic equals:
a- 6 b- 8 c- 10
4- The critical region is:
a- Reject if or . b-Reject if or .
c- Reject if d- Reject if .
5- The final decision is:
a- Reject . b- Do not reject
5- A researcher has 114 books on his shelf. He wants to test if the median number of
pages for these books is 220 pages. He randomly selected a sample of 20 book and
recorded the number of pages of each selected book as given in the following table:
153 166 181 192 244 248 258 264 296 305
330 340 356 361 395 427 433 467 544 551
Use a suitable test to answer the researcher's question.
6- A random sample of working days has been chosen for a given factory and the average
daily production is recorded. The obtained data are as follows:
28 -18- 24 -30 -40- 36- 15- 42- 23- 48
Use both the sign test and Wilcoxon test to test if the production median is less than 36.
Compare your results.
7- A company is investigating its inventory policy. Values below are daily demands (in
tons) for stock from their main storage depot of a random sample of 40 days.
24.1 24 21.8 24.3 24.2 24.2 24.1 23.6
24.1 24.4 23.5 23.2 24 24 23.8 25.3
23.1 24.6 24 25.2 25.2 24.7 24.1 25.2
21.6 24.9 24.1 24.3 26 25 23 26
22.6 24 23 22 21 24 26 25
a) Use a suitable test to test whether the median equals 24.2 at 1 % level of significance.
b) Use the previous data to test whether the median is less than 24.2.
8- The following data is about annual income per employee ( in units of one thousand pound
per employee) for a random group of employees working in one of the petroleum
companies:
42.9 43.8 48.2 60.6 54.9 55.1 52.9 54.9
42.5 33.0 33.6 36.9 27.0 47.1 33.8 28.1
28.5 29.1 36.5 36.1 26.9 27.8 28.8 29.3
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The manager claims that the median of the annual income per employee is greater than 36.
Use the sign test to test this claim. Consider .
9- A management team was asked to solve 10 different quality control problems
commonly encountered in their work before and after applying their new strategy.
Solution times in minutes required by each member in the team are shown below.
Does the strategy enhance their performance in solving quality control problems?
Before 25 26 14 21 31 12 35 28 17 26
After 12 15 14 21 19 12 25 18 27 20
10- The following data represent the level of anemia for a random sample of mothers and
their children (Mi=Mild, Mo=Moderate, and S=severe).
Mother Mi Mo S Mi S Mo Mo S Mi Mo
child Mo S Mo Mo Mi Mo S Mi S Mi
Is there a significant difference between the level of anemia of mothers and the level
of anemia for their children? Consider .
