MATH253 Week 7 Tutorial

This tutorial sheet is related to material covered in chapters  10 and  11.   Some  of the  questions will be discussed in On Campus Workshop in Week 7.  Please study the chapters 10 and 11 before attending the On Campus Workshop in Week 7.

Solutions will be available on Canvas on Friday at 5pm.

1.  The following are the weight losses, in milligrams, of certain machine parts due to friction, when they were used with diferent lubricants.

LubricantY:    8, 10, 7, 5, 6, 10, 7, 8, 11, 7, 8

LubricantZ:    9, 3, 7, 8, 4, 6, 6, 5

We want to test whether there are any diferences between the three lubricants in terms of the mean weight loss due to friction.

(a) Write down the null and alternative hypotheses to be tested.

(b)  Showing the details of your calculations, write down the ANOVA table and carry out the appro- priate hypothesis test.

(c) What are the underlying assumptions for the validity of this test?

2.  A total of 30 mothers, each of whom had an 18-month-old baby, agreed to take part in a study of children’s development. The mothers were randomly divided into three groups of 10, that did not meet each other.
Group 1 was given a simple instruction session on how best to provide a healthy diet for their children. Group 2 was given a session of the same length explaining how small children could be taught to read. Group 3 was given several sessions on how small children could be taught to read and was also given suitable teaching materials.
About one-third of the families moved out of the area and could not be followed up; however, at the age of 8, the remainder of the children were tested for reading ability and comprehension.  The test scores and associated summary statistics were as follows:

R output from the Analysis of Variance included the following.

Df         Sum  Sq      Mean  Sq      F  value    Pr(>F)

ind                    2           3154              1577.2        6.38        0.00918

Residuals      16         3955                247.2