Homework #8: Traffic Control

Due: May 16, 2016 at 14:00.

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Problems

Problem 1

The Planning Department of Tsukuba City has measured the speeds of 100 automobiles passing a particular point on Higashi-Odori. Suppose that the null hypothesis H0 is that the average speed of automobiles is equal to the speed limit. Consider the three typical hypothesis tests: the upper-tail test, the lower-tail test, and the two-tailed test. Explain how to interpret a rejection of H0 for each test, and how knowing whether H0 was rejected or accepted for each test would be useful to the Planning Department. That is, in what kind of decision would this information make a difference to the Department's action?

日本語版 は授業で話した内容で省略されたものなので英語版の方が正確 と考える。

Due: May 16, 2016 at 14:00.