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    Evaluating the method of cooking potato chips affects taste

    See attached files. SPSS Exercise Questions If you know how to operate SPSS, the assignment is fairly simple. The instructions are long, because I have included the scenarios as well. All datasets will be automatically entered into the SPSS by access the link below. I just need the measures ran and a synopsis to show cl

    Sportswear Manufacturer: Relationship between Advertising, Coupon Value and Sales

    Please see attached file for data. Question: A sportswear manufacturer wishes to investigate the relationship between the level of advertising, coupon value and sales. The manufacturer advertises several times a month and includes a manufacturer coupon (in dollars) with each advertisement. The value of the coupon remains the

    Buy.com customer service department: Average call length at call center

    See attached files. Assume all data/output is normal. 4. The manager of the customer service department at Buy.com was concerned about the performance of their call center employees. He found that average call times were higher than industry average. The manager decides to invest in a program to train his call center emplo

    Statistics MLB 1, 2, 3: Mean incomeby district, aspirin tablets, emphysema drugs

    MLB 1 A study was conducted to determine if persons in surburan district I have a different mean income from those in district II. A random sample of 50 homeowners was taken in district I. Although 50 homeowners were to be interviewed in district II also, one person refused to provide the information requested. So only 49 ob

    Non-parametric test of hypothesis

    Conduct the equivalent, nonparametric test of hypothese using the five-step process. Do the following teams average a salary of 70 million dollars a year or less? The information we are using consist of the following: Teams Salary (in millions) Oakland $55.4 Baltimore $73.9 Los Angeles Angels $97.7 Cleveland $41.5

    Is the new paint color mixing machine in home improvement store underperforming?

    Please state the hypothesis and explain the type of test to run. 3. A home improvement store recently purchased a new paint color-mixing machine. The machine is rated to produce 6 gallons of mixed paint every minute. The store's manager suspects that the machine is underperforming. In order to test his hypothesis, the manag

    Average Lifetime Value (NPV) of transaction expected from customers in FL and CA

    Please state the null hypothesis and explain the type of test to run. 1) You are interested in understanding whether the average Lifetime Value (the net present value of all the transaction expected from a customer) for the customers in the Florida is significantly different from those in California. You suspect that the Ca

    Which yogurt should have highest amount of space

    Please state the hypothesis (statistically) and explain the type (the name) of test I need to run. Please do not do anything else on this one. 1) An organic food retailer sells three types of natural yogurt: plain, low fat and fat-free. The retailer wishes to expand the shelf space allocated to yogurt and decides to allocate

    8 questBusiness Applications Problem Set Three

    See attached problem set 3 and Also some of these reference data sets that came on a disk with our book. 8 questBusiness Applications Problem Set Three This is the third of three business applications problem sets that you will complete for Math 222. To complete the assignment, first save this Word document on your compute

    Goodness of fit null hypothesis

    Three colors have been proposed for a product: blue, green, yellow. The null hypothesis for a goodness-of-fit test would be . . . A) green is preferred over the other colors B) there is no preference between colors C) any one color is preferred over the other colors D) impossible to determine I believe that 'B' is the

    Hypothesis testing on a student investigation

    A student investigated whether husbands tend to be older than their wives when they marry. The following data are from a dependent sample of 24 couples who obtained their marriage licenses in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1993. Using an appropriate two-sample test and a significance level of , determine whether these s

    Hypothesis Testing: Consumption of Saturated Fats

    Consumption of Saturated Fat: A nutritionist claims that the proportion of females who consume too much saturated fat is lower than the proportion of males who consume too much saturated fat. In interviews with 513 randomly selected females, she determines that 300 consume too much saturated fat. In interviews with 564 randomly

    Analyze sample data for time spent going to parties by college freshman

    1. National data show that, on average, college freshman spend 7.5 hours a week going to parties. President DeRosa doesn't believe that these figures apply at his school; he thinks freshman at his school party less. He takes a simple random sample of 50 freshmen and interviews them. He asks you to analyze his sample data. You de

    Stats: difference in two sample means

    Question a: Which of the following conditions must be met to conduct a test for the difference in two sample means? a. Data must be at least of interval scale b. Populations must be normal c. Variances in the two populations must be equal d. A and B correct Question b: Suppose we test the difference between two proporti

    Stats: Degrees of freedom and level of siginificance

    Question a. A survey of the opinions of property owners about a street widening project was taken to determine whether the resulting opinion was related to the distance of front footage. A randomly selected sample of 100 property owners was contacted and the results are attached. What is the critical value at the 10% level o

    Test hypothesis that automakers will produce midsized cars

    Suppose the federal government gives a substantial tax break to automakers producing midsized cars that get a mean mileage exceeding 31 MPG. A sample of 49 mileages has a mean x-bar of 31.350 and a standard deviation of s=0.799. Let u be the midsize car's mean mileage. Assume alpha=0.01 a) The following questions, represen

    Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Interval & Binomial Probability

    1.A sample of 64 college students are asked their weekly (at school) expenses during the fall term. The enquire resulted in a mean of $55 with a standard deviation of $12. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the mean expense for all the students in the school. a. Value from the table ____________ b. The confidence i

    Compare data between men and women regarding ACT scores and college GPA

    How to determine the difference between men and women regarding ACT scores and college GPA Show my findings Describe what they mean ACT Score College GPA Gender 28 1.72 M 25 3.51 M 21 2.45 F 19 2.85 F 22 2.84 M 15 3.46 F 26 1.97 F 20 3.47 F 23 3.47 M 22 4 M 16 2.94 F 21 1.9 F 23 3.25 M 17 3.23 F 25 3.51 M 19

    Hypothesis Testing of Population Mean: Statistic Z

    Suppose that we wish to test Ho: µ = 40 versus Ho µ ≠ 40, where σ is known to equal 18. Also, suppose that a sample of n = 81 measurements randomly selected from the population has mean of x bar = 35. (a). Calculate the value of the test statistic z. (b). By comparing z with a critical value, test Ho versus Ha a

    Hypothesis Testing of Standard Deviation

    A manufacturer uses a new production method to produce steel rods. A random sample of 17 steel rods resulted in lengths with a standard deviation of 21.1cm. At the 0.10 significance level, test the claim that the new production method has lengths with a SD different form 3.5cm which was the SD for the old method. Identify the n

    Test Statistic: Population Proportion

    A claim was made that the proportion of drowning deaths in children attributable to beaches is more than 0.25 and the sample statistics include n=615 drowning deaths of children with 30% attributable to beaches. What is the value of the test statistic z?

    Analyze mileage and vehicle weight vs miles per gallon data

    See attached file. Using Data set 'G', choose the dependent variable (the response variable to be 'explained') and the independent variable (the predictor or explanatory variable) as you judge appropriate. Use a spreadsheet or a statistical package (e.g., MegaStat or MINITAB) to obtain the bivariate regression and required gr

    Hypothesis-Null & Alternative,P-value for F-test;2-Way ANOVA

    See attached file. Hypothesis - Null & Alternative, p-value for F-test (ANOVA) - How to determine significance difference in means 1) An investor wants to know if a difference exists, at a significance level of 0.05, between home prices in three subdivisions. Independent samples of homes from each of the three subdivis

    Hypothesis Test

    The Rocky Mountain district sales manager of Rath Publishing, Inc., a college textbook publishing company, claims that the sales representatives make an average of 36 sales calls per week on professors. Several reps say that this estimate is too low. To investigate, a random sample of 32 sales representatives reveals that the me

    Statistics

    1) If the correlation coefficient r is equal to 0.57, find the coefficient of determination. a) 0.68 b) 0.75 c) 0.45 d) 0.32 2) The prediction interval around y' for a specific x is a) A confidence interval for the true mean value of the y values that correspond to that x b) The value of y used to calculate the slo

    One Sample Tests of Hypothesis: Prop bets at Mirage for Super Bowl Sunday

    According to news reports, Las Vegas betting parlors increased the number of proposition (prop) bets available to gamblers for this year's Super Bowl (Example: Which team will be the first to suspend a starting player for a team rules violation?). It is believed that the mean number of prop bets per typical gambler is normally

    Waiting line model - Queuing Theory

    Question 1 Produce trucks arrive at the weigh station at the California border at a rate of 3 per hour according to a Poisson distribution. Livestock trucks arrive at that same weigh station at a rate of 2 per hour according to a Poisson distribution. What is the probability that the number of livestock trucks arriving at the

    Hypothesis Testing of Population Proportion: Traditional Method

    By using the Traditional Method and Z test value, find the following: The researcher estimated that out of the 100 students at least 50% of the students would be exposed to movies and TV w/ crude humor at least 2-4 times per week. With a sample of 50 students the researcher found that 57% of the students were exposed to crude

    Compute T-Value Obtained from Table

    Exhibit 13-3 Below you are given a partial Excel output based on a sample of 25 observations. Coefficients Standard Error Intercept 145.321 48.682 x1 25.625 9.150 x2 â?'5.720 3.575 x3 0.823 0.183 Refer to Exhibit 13-3. The t value obtained from the table to test an in