WEEK 5 – QUIZ

Part A. Read each of the following scenarios below. Identify what

statistical test is to be used and justify. Explain briefly. (5 points each)

1. The researcher surveyed 225 freshmen students of USLS randomly and asked if
Calculus is their favorite subject (yes/no). He was particularly interested whether
there is a significant relationship between sex and Calculus preference.

2. A university researcher is interested to find out if people who have positive view
of themselves in one aspect of their lives is linked to have positive view of
themselves in other aspects of their lives. To address this question, he has
purposively chosen 50 men to complete a self-concept inventory that contains 2
scales. The 2 scales involve questions about how competent respondents feel in
the areas of academic reasoning and scholarly knowledge. The inventory yields
ordinal data.

3. Taikaru Tires measures the tire wear for the right and left tires (front tires only)
of the new model they have designed and would like to determine the correlation
between the two. In the first line of production, the company was able to
produce 243 cars. The tire wear was measured using a score of 0-100.

Part B. FOR EACH OF THE PROBLEMS BELOW, INDICATE THE FOLLOWING:

A) STATEMENT OF THE HYPOTHESES
B) VARIABLES
C) STATISTICAL TEST TO BE USED
D) CONCLUSION

1. A production supervisor has observed that certain types of defects in the

production are found in different work shifts of the factory workers. He is
interested to find out whether the type of defect (Defect A, B, C or D) is
associated with work shift (Shift 1, 2, or 3). Level of significance is at .05. Refer
to the SPSS outputs below.

Work shift * Type of defect Crosstabulation

Type of defect Total

Defect A Defect B Defect C Defect D

Work shift Shift 1 Count 14 21 45 13 93

Expected Count 22.0 20.8 38.6 11.5 93.0

Shift 2 Count 26 31 34 5 96

Expected Count 22.8 21.5 39.9 11.8 96.0

Shift 3 Count 33 17 49 20 119

Expected Count 28.2 26.7 49.5 14.7 119.0

Total Count 73 69 128 38 308

Expected Count 73.0 69.0 128.0 38.0 308.0

 Chi-Square Tests

Asymptotic
Significance (2-
Value df sided)
a
Pearson Chi-Square 19.908 6 .003
Likelihood Ratio 21.195 6 .002
Linear-by-Linear Association .716 1 .398
N of Valid Cases 308

a. 0 cells (0.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum

expected count is 11.47.

Symmetric Measures

Approximate
Value Significance

Nominal by Nominal Phi .254 .003

Cramer's V .180 .003

N of Valid Cases 308

2. A health worker is interested to find out if there is a correlation between body

temperature (degrees Celsius) and heart rate (beats per minute). She gathered
the clinical profile of 100 individuals in terms of their heart rate and body
temperature. Data is assumed to be normally distributed with no significant
outliers. SPSS results are presented below. Level of significance is at .05
Correlations

Descriptive Statistics

Mean Std. Deviation N

Body temperature 36.6850 .35940 100

heart rate 73.1100 6.82671 100

Correlations

Body
temperature heart rate

Body temperature Pearson Correlation 1 .247*

Sig. (2-tailed) .013

N 100 100
heart rate Pearson Correlation .247* 1

Sig. (2-tailed) .013

N 100 100

*. Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).