题目
It is claimed that of voters in a certain town support the Forward Now political party. A researcher suspects that the true figure is less than . She interviews a random sample of voters from the town and she finds that voters in the sample say that they support the Forward Now party. She plans to carry out a hypothesis test at the significance level.
(a) Use a binomial distribution to carry out the test.
(b) State, with a reason, whether it is possible that a Type I error was made in carrying out the test.
Later the researcher carries out a similar test at the significance level, using a new random sample of voters from the town.
(c) Find the probability of a Type I error.
题目中文翻译
有人声称某镇有 的选民支持 Forward Now 政党。一名研究人员怀疑真实比例低于 。她在镇上随机抽取 名选民进行访问,发现样本中有 名选民表示支持 Forward Now 政党。她计划在 的显著性水平下进行假设检验。
(a) 用二项分布进行检验。
(b) 指出进行该检验时是否可能犯第一类错误,并说明理由。
后来,研究人员在镇上重新随机抽取了 名选民,在 的显著性水平下进行类似的检验。
(c) 求发生第一类错误的概率。
原卷通用作答要求
Answer all questions. You should use a calculator where appropriate.
You must show all necessary working clearly; no marks will be given for unsupported answers from a calculator.
Give non-exact numerical answers correct to 3 significant figures, or 1 decimal place for angles in degrees, unless a different level of accuracy is specified in the question.
请回答所有题目。适当时应使用计算器。必须清楚展示所有必要的计算过程;仅给出计算器答案而没有过程,不予评分。除非题目另有精度要求,非精确数值答案保留 3 位有效数字,以度为单位的角度保留 1 位小数。
解答
(a)
解法一
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怀疑比例降低,对观察到的四名支持者计算左尾二项概率。
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Let be the population proportion supporting Forward Now. Test against .
Under , the count has distribution . For ,
Since , reject . There is sufficient evidence at the level that the population proportion of voters supporting Forward Now is less than .
(b)
解法一
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本次拒绝了原假设;若原假设实际上为真,就可能犯第一类错误。
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Yes. The test rejected , so a Type I error may have been made if the true population support proportion is still .
(c)
解法一
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核对下一个整数,确定实际拒绝域,再求原假设下落入拒绝域的概率。
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Part (a) gives . But under ,
Thus the critical region is , and