Assignment for Wednesday, March 29 (M 358K, Sp 06, Smith)
I. Read the rest of Section 7.1 (pp. 459 - 470. Pay particular attention to the following points:
- When Matched Pairs procedures are appropriate (pp. 459 - 462)
- Robustness (pp. 462 - 464)
- Power of the t-test (pp. 464 - 465)
- Transforming data (pp. 465 - 468)
II. Do the following exercises to reinforce reading and for possible class discussion: 7.3, 7.27, 7.31, 7.39, 7.50, 7.51
III. Hand in: p. 430 #6.88, p. 439 #6.90, p. 440 #6.96, pp. 443 - 446 #6.104, 6.106, and 6.110
Note: To save yourself some
work, do #6.104 using a spreadsheet or Minitab: put the values of the
means in one column, use a formula (or the calculation feature in
Minitab) to get the test statistics in another column, etc.