| IPS 5/e | Moore & McCabe | Ex. 7.41 | ||||||
| (IPS 4/e formulation) | ||||||||
| "The table below gives the pretest and posttest scores on the MLA | ||||||||
| listening test in French for 20 high school French teachers | ||||||||
| who attended an intensive summer course in French." | ||||||||
| Subject | Pretest | Posttest | Gain | Sign | ||||
| 1 | 32 | 34 | ||||||
| 2 | 31 | 31 | ||||||
| 3 | 29 | 35 | ||||||
| 4 | 10 | 16 | ||||||
| 5 | 30 | 33 | ||||||
| 6 | 33 | 36 | ||||||
| 7 | 22 | 24 | ||||||
| 8 | 25 | 28 | ||||||
| 9 | 32 | 26 | ||||||
| 10 | 20 | 26 | ||||||
| 11 | 30 | 36 | ||||||
| 12 | 20 | 26 | ||||||
| 13 | 24 | 27 | ||||||
| 14 | 24 | 24 | ||||||
| 15 | 31 | 32 | ||||||
| 16 | 30 | 31 | ||||||
| 17 | 15 | 15 | ||||||
| 18 | 32 | 34 | ||||||
| 19 | 23 | 26 | ||||||
| 20 | 23 | 26 | ||||||
| "(a) | We hope to show that attending the institute improves listening skills. | |||||||
| State an appropriate Ho and Ha. Be sure to identify the | ||||||||
| parameters appearing in the hypotheses. | ||||||||
| "(b) | Make a graphical check for outliers or strong skewness in the data that | |||||||
| you will use in your statistical test, and report your conclusions on the | ||||||||
| validity of the test." | ||||||||
| 0. | State your background assumptions. | See IPS p. 463. | ||||||
| "( c) | Carry out a test. Can you reject Ho at the 5% significance level? | |||||||
| At the 1% significance level? | ||||||||
| "(d) | Give a 90% confidence interval for the mean increase in listening score | |||||||
| due to attending the summer institute." | ||||||||
| (e) | Also carry out a sign test of the same hypotheses. | |||||||