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Q. A manufacturer intends that his electric bulbs have a life of 1000 hrs. He tests a sample of 20
bulbs drawn at random from a batch and discovers that the mean life of the sample bulb is 990
hrs with S.D of 22 hrs. Does this signify that the batch is not up to the mark.
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Q Two independent samples of 8 and 7 items respectively had the following values

Sample 1 x:

Sample 2 y:

Is the difference between the means of the two samples significant.

( Given that the values of t at 5% level of significance for 13, 14, 15 d.f. are 2.16, 2.14 and 2.13
respectively).
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Q Two types of batteries A and B are tested for their length of life and the following results were
obtained:

No. Of samples Mean Variance

A 10 500 100
B 10 560 121
Is there a significant difference in the two means.
( The value of t at 5% level of significance for 18 degree of freedom is 2.101)
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Q The following figures refers to observations in live independent samples

Sample 1. 25 30 28 34 24 20 13 32 22 38
Sample 2. 40 34 22 20 31 40 30 23 36 17

Analyse whether the samples have been drawn from the population of equal means.
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Q Memory capacity of 9 students was tested before and after a course of meditation for a month.
State whether the course was effective or not from the data below.

Before 10 15 9 3 7 12 16 17 4
After 12 17 8 5 6 11 18 20 3
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SNEDECOR’S VARIANCE RATIO TEST OR F TEST
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Q. In two independent samples of sizes 8 and 10, the sum of square of deviation of the sample
values from the respective sample means were 84.4 and 102.6. Test whether the difference of
variance of the population is significant or not.

Q. Two independent samples of sizes 9 and 8 give the sum of square of deviations from their
respective means equal to 160 and 91 respectively. Can these be regarded as drawn from the
same normal population.
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Q Two random samples have the following values

Sample1 : 15 22 28 26 18 17 29 21 24
Sample2 : 8 12 9 16 15 10
Test the difference of the estimates of the population at 5% level of significance.
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Q. The two random samples reveal the following data

Sample Size Mean Variance

1 16 440 40
2 25 460 42

Test whether the samples come from the same normal population
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CHI-SQUARE TEST

When a coin is tossed 100 times, the theoretical considerations leads us to expect 50 heads and
50 tails. But in practice, these results are rarely achieved. The quantity describes the
magnitude of discrepancy between theory and observation. If the observed and expected
frequencies completely coincides. The greater the discrepancy the greater is the value of
Thus affords a measure of the correspondence between theory and observation.

Applications of Test

1 as a test of goodness of fit

2. As a test of independence of attributes
3. As a test of homogeneity of independent estimates of the population variance
4. As a test of hypothetical value of the population variance
5. As a list of the homogeneity of independent estimates of the population correlation coefficient

Condition for applying chi square test

Total number of frequencies should be large (> 50)

If n numbers:
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Then in case of binomial distribution d.f. = n-1

In the case of Poisson distribution d.f. = n-2
In the case of Normal distribution d.f. = n-3

Q. The following table gives the number of accidents that take place in an industry during
various days of week. Test if accidents are uniformly distributed over the week
Days Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
No. Of accidents 14 18 12 11 15 14
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Q. A die is thrown 276 times and the result of these throws are as
No. appeared on the die 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 40 32 29 59 57 59

Test whether the die is biased or not.

Q. The following table shows the distribution of digits in number chosen at random from a
telephone directory
Digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Frequency 1026 1107 997 966 1075 933 1107 972 964 853

Test whether the digits may be taken to occur equally frequently in the directory.
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Q. Records taken of the number of male and female births in 800 families having four children
are as follows

No. Of male birth 0 1 2 3 4

No. Of female birth 4 3 2 1 0
No. Of families 32 178 290 236 94

Test whether the data are consistent with the hypothesis that the binomial law holds and the
chance of male birth is equal to that of female birth, namely p=q=1/2
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Q. Fit a Poisson distribution to the following data and test for its goodnesses at 5% level of
significance

x 0 1 2 3 4
f 419 352 154 56 19
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Q. The theory predicts the proportion of beans in the four group G ,G , G , and G should be in the
ratio 9:3:3:1. In an experiment with 1600 beans the numbers in the four groups were 882, 313,
287 and 118. Does the experimental results support the theory.
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TEST AS A TEST OF INDEPENDENCE

With the help of this test, we can find whether or not two attributes are associated. We take the
null hypothesis that there is no association between the attributes under study i.e we assume
that the two attributes are independent.

Q. What are the expected frequencies of 2X2 contingency tables given below

(a) a b (b) 2 10
c d 6 6

Q. From the following table regarding the colours of eyes of fathers and sons test if the colour of
son’s eye is associated with that of the father
Eye colour of son
Light Not light
Eye colour of father Light 471 51
Not light 148 230
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Q. From the following data, find whether hair colour and sex are associated
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Q. Can the vaccination be regarded as preventive measure of small pox as

evidenced by the following data of 1482 persons exposed to small pox in locality.
368 in all were attacked of these 1482 persons and 343 were vaccinated and of
these only 35 were attacked.
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