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T-Test Tutorial

The document provides examples of using t-tests to analyze sample data and determine if sample means are significantly different from hypothesized population means. It includes 6 examples of applying t-tests to samples from sales invoices, software professional incomes, tire lifespan testing a claim, employee attitude survey scores, drug trial temperatures, and car engine lifespan to determine if sample data supports or rejects hypotheses about population means.

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T-Test Tutorial

The document provides examples of using t-tests to analyze sample data and determine if sample means are significantly different from hypothesized population means. It includes 6 examples of applying t-tests to samples from sales invoices, software professional incomes, tire lifespan testing a claim, employee attitude survey scores, drug trial temperatures, and car engine lifespan to determine if sample data supports or rejects hypotheses about population means.

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T-test tutorial

EXAMPLE 1
A random sample of 50 sales invoices was taken from
a large population of sales invoices. The average value
was found to be Rs. 2000 with a standard deviation of
Rs. 540. Find a 90% confidence interval for the true
mean value of all the sales.
EXAMPLE 2
 During the economic boom, the average monthly income of
software professionals touched Rs. 75,000. A researcher is
conducting a study on the impact of economic recession in
2008. The researcher believes that the economic recession may
have an adverse impact on the average monthly salary of
software professionals. For verifying his belief, the researcher
has taken a random sample of 20 software professionals and
computed their average income during the recession period. The
average income of these 20 professionals is computed as Rs.
60,000. The sample standard deviation is computed as Rs. 3000.
Use α = 0.10 to test whether the average income of software
professionals is Rs. 75,000 or it has gone down as indicated by
the sample mean.
EXAMPLE 3
 Royal Tyres has launched a new brand of tyres for tractors
and claims that under normal circumstances the average
life of the tyres is 40,000 km. A retailer wants to test this
claim and has taken a random sample of 8 tyres. He test the
life of the tyres under normal circumstance. The results
obtained are presented in table below. Use α = 0.05 for
testing of hypothesis.

Tyres 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

km 35000 38000 42000 41000 39000 41500 43000 38500


EXAMPLE 4
 An electronic goods company arranged a special training programme for one segment of
its employees. The company wants to measure the change in the attitude of its employees
after the training. For this purpose, it has used a well-designed questionnaire, which
consists of 10 questions on a 1 to 5 rating scale (1 is strongly disagree and 5 is strongly
agree). The company selected a random sample of 10 employees. The scores obtained by
these employees are given in the table:

Employees 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Scores before training 25 26 28 22 20 30 22 20 21 24

Scores after training 32 30 32 34 32 28 25 30 25 28


Use α = 0.10 to determine whether there is a significant change in the attitude of employees
after the training programme.
EXAMPLE 5
A new drug manufacturer wants to market new drug
only if he could be quite sure that the mean
temperature of a healthy person taking the drug could
not rise above 98.6 F otherwise he will withhold the
drug.
The drug is administered to a random sample of 17
healthy persons. The mean temperature was found to
be 98.4F with a S.D. of 0.6 F. Assuming the
distribution is normal and α = 0.01, what should the
manufacturer do?
EXAMPLE 6
Cars running on normal petrol are known to have an
average engine life of 1,20,000 kms with a S.D. of
15,000 kms. A random sample of 100 cars using
premium petrol reported mean engine life of 1,22,000
kms. Test whether premium petrol increases car engine
life (using α=0.05).

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