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    The document contains 15 multiple part exercises on confidence intervals: 1. The exercises cover calculating confidence intervals for means, proportions, differences in means, variances, and ratios of variances. Sample sizes range from 6 to 1000. 2. Common confidence levels used are 90%, 95%, 98%, and 99%. Point estimates are also calculated for means, proportions, variances, and standard deviations. 3. Assumptions made include normality and equal variances between populations. Conditions checked include sample from normal population, unknown population variance, and small sample size.

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    UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA

    SEMESTER II, SESSION 2014/2015


    SSCE/SSE 2193: ENGINEERING STATISTICS
    Chapter 3 Exercises
    1. When you construct a 90% confidence interval for , what are you 90% confident about?
    2. What happen to the width of CI if we increase the same size?
    3. Can we consider the construction of confidence interval be part of inferential statistics? Why?
    4. For a data set obtained from a sample, n = 49, x
    = 102.5, and, s = 10.7
    (a) What is the point estimate for ?
    (b) Compute a 98% CI for .
    5. A 90% CI for can be interpreted as follow, if we take 1000 random samples of the same size
    and compute the confidence interval each, then 900 of them
    a. will contain b. will not contain c. will contain x

    6. Carbonated drink bottles are filled by an automated filling machine. Assume that the fill
    volume is normally distributed and from previous production process the variance of fill
    volume is 0.005 liter. A random sample of size 16 was drawn from this process which gives
    the mean fill volume of 0.51 liter. Construct a 99% CI on the mean fill of all carbonated drink
    bottles produced by this factory.
    7. A random sample of 12 wafers were drawn from a slider fabrication process which gives the
    following photoresist thickness in micrometer: 10 11 9 8 10 10 11 8 9 10 11 12 Assume that
    the thickness is normally distributed. Construct a 95% CI for mean of all wafers thickness
    produced by this factory, .
    8. The following is the result for diameter of 10 bearings selected randomly from a production
    process.
    0.5061
    0.5037

    0.5083
    0.5048

    0.5058
    0.5097

    0.5075
    0.5069

    0.5049
    0.5071

    Assume that diameter of bearing follows normal distribution.


    (a) Construct a 90% CI for the mean of diameter of bearings.
    (b) Construct a 95% CI for the mean of diameter of bearings.
    (c) Comment on your interval estimates pertaining to their maximum error which is defined
    as t/2,n1 .
    9. In integrated circuit manufacturing industry, a basic process is to grow an epitaxial layer
    on polished silicon wafers. The wafers are mounted on a susceptor and positioned inside
    a specified jar. Through the nozzles positioned near the top of the jar a chemical vapours
    are introduced. The susceptor is rotated and heat at constant temperature is applied. The
    following are the thickness of the epitaxial layers (in m ) at low deposition time and at 59%
    arsenic flow rate.
    13.925

    13.909

    14.057

    14.068
    1

    14.006

    13.893

    14.005

    (a) Construct a 90% CI for the mean thickness of epitaxial layers assuming that the thickness
    of epitaxial layer follows normal distribution with variance of 0.0050 m2 .
    (b) Construct a 90% CI for mean thickness of all epitaxial layers assuming that the thickness
    of epitaxial layer follows normal distribution.
    (c) Comment on the interval estimates based on their practicality.
    10. Using data in question 9 and the following data on thickness of the epitaxial layers at high
    deposition time and at 59% arsenic flow rate;
    14.295

    14.095

    15.505

    15.806

    15.106

    14.839,

    construct a 90% CI on the difference between means thickness of epitaxial layers assuming
    that the thickness of epitaxial layers follow normal distribution with equal variances. Interpret
    your CI and can you conclude that the true mean difference is zero?
    11. A quality inspector inspected a random sample of 300 memory chips from a production line,
    she found 9 are defectives. Construct a 99% confidence interval for the proportion of defective
    chips.
    12. A manufacturer of mobile phone batteries is interested in estimating the proportion of defect
    of his products. A random sample of size 800 batteries contains 10 defectives. Construct a
    95% confidence interval for the proportion of defectives.
    13. A manufacturer of computer chips inspected a random sample of 1000 chips. The following
    are the number of defects according to its type.

    holes too small


    holes too large
    poor connections
    chip oversize
    chip undersize

    90
    25
    10
    2
    1

    (a) What is the point estimate of the proportion of defectives due to holes too small?
    (b) Construct a 90% CI for the proportion of defectives for the production process due to
    holes too small.
    (c) What is the point estimate for proportion of defectives due to poor connection?
    (d) Construct a 90% CI for the proportion of defectives for the production process due to
    poor connection.
    (e) If oversize and undersize chip can be classified as incorrect chip size, what is the point
    estimate of the proportion of defect due to incorrect chip size? Hence find a 95% interval
    estimate for the proportion of defective items due to incorrect chip size.
    14. An optical firm is concerned about the variability of the refractive index of a typical glass
    that he will grind into lenses. The refractive index follows approximately normal distribution.
    A random sample of 15 glasses is drawn from a large shipment which give a variance of
    1.5 104 refractive index. Construct a 95% CI for the standard deviation of refractive index
    of all glasses.

    15. A mechanical engineer in a car manufacturing company is investigating two types of bumper
    guards. A random sample of 6 guards from each type were mounted on a compact car. Each
    car was then run into a concrete wall at 8km per hour. The following are the costs of repairs
    (in RM):
    Bumper guard 1 : 305 420 363 485 300 360
    Bumper guard 2 : 405 345 336 450 400 360
    (a) Construct a 90% CI for the mean cost of repairs using bumper guard 1. State 3 conditions
    in constructing the CI.
    (b) Assuming that all conditions in part (a) are satisfied, construct a 90% CI for mean costs
    of repairs using bumper guard 2. What can you observe from these CIs?
    (c) Assuming that the variances of cost of repairs are equal, construct a 95% CI on the
    mean differences of cost of repairs.
    (d) What is the point estimate of the variance of cost of repair for bumper guard 1? Construct a 95% CI for variance of cost of repair for bumper guard 1.
    (e) What is the point estimate of the standard deviation of cost of repair for bumper guard
    2? Construct a 95% CI for the standard deviation of cost of repair for bumper guard 2.
    (f) Find a 90% CI for the ratio of two variances for cost of repairs.

    Answers
    1. The observed interval contains the true value of .
    2. Shorter
    3. Yes, because we are making use of the sample information to infer the population parameter.
    4. a. 102.5

    b. (98.944, 106.056)

    5. a.
    6. (0.4645, 0.5555) liter
    7. (9.1, 10.7) micrometer
    8. a. (0.5054, 0.5075) cm

    b. (0.5052, 0.5078) cm

    9. a. (13.928501, 14.03236)
    b. (13.927978, 14.032882)
    c. CI in part (b) is more practical as it is
    impractical to know the variance of normal population without knowing its mean.
    10. (1.061, 0.460);
    confidence , No.

    the observed interval contains the true value of mean difference with 90% level of

    11. (0.004631, 0.05537)


    12. (0.0048, 0.0202)
    13. a. 0.09 b. (0.0751, 0.1049)

    c. 0.01

    d. (0.0048, 0.0152)

    e. 0.003; (0.0004, 0.00639)

    14. (0.804, 3.731) 10


    15.

    a. (314.033, 430.301); sample was drawn from a normal population, is unknown, and n is small.
    b. (346.917, 418.417) c. RM(85.96, 64.96)
    d. 70.6692 ; (1945.958, 30048.782) RM2

    e. 43.459 ; RM(27.13, 29.78)

    f. (0.5236, 13.353)

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