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School of Mathematics and Statistics

Quiz 1 Sample
MATH1005: Statistics 2013
Lecturers: Nicola Armstrong, Emi Tanaka and Di Warren
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1. Find the third quartile, Q
3
, of the 8 observations :
35 33 34 36 30 32 32 32
Answer:
2. For the 8 observations in question 1, nd the mean.
Answer:
3. How many outliers are among the 15 observations :
10.6 11.5 11.2 12.2 10.0 12.7 15.0 10.2 11.1 10.0 10.4 12.1 11.8 12.3 12.9
(Hint: Q
1
= 10.4 and IQR = 1.9. An ordered stem-and-leaf plot is useful for the next
question).
Answer:
4. For the 15 observations in question 3, nd the median.
Answer:
5. A correlation coecient of r = 0.1 is reported for a sample of pairs (x
i
, y
i
). Without any
further information this implies:
(a) the points (x
i
, y
i
) lie on a straight line of slope 0.1.
(b) the points (x
i
, y
i
) are scattered about a straight line of slope 0.1.
(c) with a probability of 10% the relationship between x and y is best described with a
straight line.
(d) the relationship between x and y is more likely to be non linear
(e) none of these
Write the corresponding letter in the box.
Answer:
6. For a sample x
1
, x
2
, ..., x
17
we have

17
i=1
x
i
= 258 and

17
i=1
x
2
i
= 4098. Find the stan-
dard deviation to 2 decimal places.
Answer:
3
7. For the following data:
i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
x
i
13 8 10 12 8 14 14 14 15 8 7 13
y
i
13.4 8.8 10.0 12.6 7.2 13.1 14.9 12.6 14.1 7.1 7.4 12.5

i
x
i
= 136,

i
y
i
= 133.7, S
xy
= 89.13333, S
xx
= 94.66667, S
yy
= 90.56917. Find the
coecient of correlation r (to 3 d.p.) and the slope b of the linear regression of y on x
(to 3 d.p.). BOTH answers need to be correct.
Answer:
r = b =
8. The success probability of a new strategy is 0.1. Use tables to nd the probability
of less than 2 successes in 10 independent repetitions of applying the new strategy.
Answer:
9. Two doping tests are available, test A and test B. If it is known that a certain blood
sample was taken from a doped athlete then test A detects it with probability 0.6 and test
B detects it with probability 0.8 whereas the probability that both tests simultaneously
detect it is 0.54. What is the probability that neither of the tests detects that the blood
sample is suspicious?
Answer:
10. The random variable X is described by the following probabilities.
i 1 2 3
P(X = i) 0.5 0.4 0.1
What is the expected value of X?
Answer:
11. For the random variable in Question 10, what is the expected value of (X 1)?
Answer:
4
12. Suppose that X is the number of heads obtained by ipping independently 3 times a coin
for which the probability of observing a tail is
2
3
and for head
1
3
. What is the expected
value of X?
Answer:
13. For X in question 12, nd var(X) to 4 d.p.
Answer:
14. If X B(10, 0.35), then what is P(X = 6) to 4 d.p.?
Answer:
15. If a random variable X has mean 1 and variance 2 then for Y = X +3 what is the result
of var(Y ) + E(Y )?
Answer:
5
Formula sheet for MATH1005 Statistics
Calculation formulae:
For a sample x
1
, x
2
, . . . , x
n
Sample mean x
1
n

n
i=1
x
i
Sample variance s
2 1
n1

n
i=1
x
2
i

1
n

n
i=1
x
i

.
For paired observations (x
1
, y
1
), (x
2
, y
2
), . . . , (x
n
, y
n
)
S
xy

n
i=1
x
i
y
i

1
n

n
i=1
x
i

n
i=1
y
i
S
xx

n
i=1
x
2
i

1
n

n
i=1
x
i

2
S
yy

n
i=1
y
2
i

1
n

n
i=1
y
i

2
r
S
xy

S
xx
S
yy
For the regression line
y = a + bx:
b
S
xy
S
xx
a y b x
Some probability results:
For any two events A and B P(A B) = P(A) + P(B) P(A B) and
P(A B) = P(A)P(B|A)
If A and B are mutually exclusive (m.e.) P(A B) = 0 and P(A B) = P(A) + P(B)
If A and B are independent P(A B) = P(A)P(B)
If X B(n, p), then :
P(X = r) =

n
r

p
r
(1 p)
nr
, r = 0, . . . , n, E(X) = np and var(X) = np(1 p)
Some test statistics and sampling distributions under appropriate assumptions and
hypotheses:

X N

,

2
n

X
/

n
N(0, 1)

X
S/

n
t
n1

Y
S
p

1
n
x
+
1
n
y
t
n
x
+n
y
2
, where
S
2
p
= [(n
x
1)S
2
x
+ (n
y
1)S
2
y
]/(n
x
+ n
y
2)

i
(O
i
E
i
)
2
E
i

2

, for appropriate
6
7
Answers
1. 34.5
2. 33
3. 1
4. 11.5
5. (e)
6. 3.38
7. r = 0.963, b = 0.942.
8. 0.7361
9. 0.14
10. 1.6
11. 0.6
12. 1
13.
2
3
14. 0.0689
15. 6
8