Solutions of MA2612 Quiz 5

1. (a) b∗ = 2.
(b) Binomial distribution with n=5 and p=0.5.
2 − 0.5 × 5 − 0.5
(c) z ∗ = √ = −0.8944
0.25 × 5
p − value = P (Z > z ∗ ) = P (Z > −0.8944) = 1 − 0.1867 = 0.8133

2. 5
r
5 5
3. k = + 1.96 × = 5.6 ≈ 6 (y(5−6+1) , y(6) ) = (y0 , y(6) ). Then the 95% confidence
2 2
interval for θ based on the sigh test is (2,9).