Hypothesis Test, Sigma Known
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# Line 1: a small demonstration of hypothesis testing,
# in this case for a population with unknown standard deviation
#
# First, we will get a population
# In this case we will get a large population
source("../gnrnd5.R")
gnrnd5(177938412404,184000676)
#let us look at the head and tail values
head(L1)
tail(L1)
min(L1)
max(L1)
# just a quick look at L1
hist(L1)
boxplot(L1, horizontal=TRUE)
source("../assess_normality.R")
assess_normality( L1 )
#
# L1 sure looks like a Normal distribution.
#
# ##########################
# ## Problem: test the null hypothesis
# ## that the population mean is equal to 60.0
# ## against the alternative hypothesis that
# ## the population mean is greater than 60.0.
# ## Run the test at the 0.05 level of significance.
# ##########################
# take a simple random sample of size 23
#
# Be careful: Every time we do this we get
# a different random sample
#
L2 <- as.integer( runif(23, 1, 4126) )
# L2 holds the index values of our simple random sample
L2
L3 <- L1[ L2 ] # L3 holds the simple random sample
L3
# we will get the mean of L3
xbar <- mean(L3)
xbar
# and we need to get the standard deviation of
# the sample
sx <- sd( L3 )
sx
# The long way to do the test is to find the probability
# getting this mean or higher if the true mean is 60.0
# given that the standard deviation of the population is
# unknown and that we have a sample of size 23
# from a population that we know to be normally distributed.
#
# Since the means of samples of size 23 are
# distributed as a Student's-t with 22 degrees
# of freedom and with mean = population mean and standard
# deviation = sx/sqrt( n ) for the
# attained significance approach we just need to find
pt( (xbar-60)/( sx/sqrt(23)), 22,
lower.tail=FALSE)
# If that value is less than 0.05 then we reject the
# null hypothesis in favor of the alternative
# For the critical value approach we first need to find the
# value of t that has P(X>t)=0.05
t <- qt( 0.05, 22, lower.tail=FALSE)
t
# Then transform that to our sample
t*sx/sqrt(23)+60.0
# Then if xbar is greater than this value we reject the
# null hypothesis in favor of the alternative
#
# Of course, we could use the function
# hypoth_test_unknown() to do both of these approaches in
# one easy step.
#
source("../hypo_unknown.R")
hypoth_test_unknown( 60.0, 1, 0.05,
23, xbar, sx)
#
#
#################################
# go back and execute lines 34-77 many more times.
# Each time you get a different random sample.
# Keep track of the number of times that you reject or
# do not reject the null hypothesis. By the way, the
# true mean of the population is 67.63552.
#################################
#
# now we will do the same thing for a different population
#
gnrnd5(146723412404,184000600)
#let us look at the head and tail values
head(L1)
tail(L1)
min(L1)
max(L1)
sigma <- pop_sd( L1 )
sigma
# just a quick look at L1
hist(L1)
boxplot(L1, horizontal=TRUE)
assess_normality( L1 )
#
# L1 sure looks like a Normal distribution.
#
# ##########################
# ## Problem: test the null hypothesis
# ## that the population mean is equal to 60.0
# ## against the alternative hypothesis that
# ## the population mean is greater than 60.0.
# ## Run the test at the 0.05 level of significance.
# ##########################
# take a simple random sample of size 23
#
# Be careful: Every time we do this we get
# a different random sample
#
L2 <- as.integer( runif(23, 1, 4126) )
# L2 holds the index values of our simple random sample
L2
L3 <- L1[ L2 ] # L3 holds the simple random sample
L3
# we will get the mean of L3
xbar <- mean(L3)
xbar
# and we need to get the standard deviation of
# the sample
sx <- sd( L3 )
sx
# The long way to do the test is to find the probability
# getting this mean or higher if the true mean is 60.0
# given that the standard deviation of the population is
# unknown and that we have a sample of size 23
# from a population that we know to be normally distributed.
#
# Since the means of samples of size 23 are
# distributed as a Student's-t with 22 degrees
# of freedom and with mean = population mean and standard
# deviation = sx/sqrt( n ) for the
# attained significance approach we just need to find
pt( (xbar-60)/( sx/sqrt(23)), 22,
lower.tail=FALSE)
# If that value is less than 0.05 then we reject the
# null hypothesis in favor of the alternative
# For the critical value approach we first need to find the
# value of t that has P(X>t)=0.05
t <- qt( 0.05, 22, lower.tail=FALSE)
t
# Then transform that to our sample
t*sx/sqrt(23)+60.0
# Then if xbar is greater than this value we reject the
# null hypothesis in favor of the alternative
#
# Of course, we could use the function
# hypoth_test_unknown() to do both of these approaches in
# one easy step.
#
source("../hypo_unknown.R")
hypoth_test_unknown( 60.0, 1, 0.05,
23, xbar, sx)
#
#################################
# go back and execute lines 121-164 many more times.
# Each time you get a different random sample.
# Keep track of the number of times that you reject or
# do not reject the null hypothesis. By the way, the
# true mean of the population is 60.03343.
#################################