STAT 516 hw 1

Author

Karl Gregory

Students in a statistics class were asked to feel their pulses and count the number of heartbeats they felt during a thirty-second time period. These were doubled in order to obtain beats per minute (bpm) measurements. These are stored in the vector hr in the R code below:

hr <- c(80, 118, 92, 84, 78, 84, 
        76, 82, 76, 88, 108, 90, 
        90, 90, 86, 70, 68, 46, 
        98, 56, 84, 80, 78, 66, 60)

1)

Check whether it appears the measurements come from a normal distribution by making a normal quantile-quantile plot.

2)

Report the sample mean ${\bar{X}}_{n}$ , sample variance $S_{n}^{2}$ , and sample standard deviation $S_{n}$ of the measurements.

3)

Assume that the resting heart rate measurements are drawn from a normal distribution with unknown mean, but with a known standard deviation of $16$ beats per minute (bpm). Give a $99 %$ confidence interval for the mean resting heart rate based on the measurements from the students.

4)

Now give a $99 %$ confidence interval for the mean resting heart rate based on the measurements of the students, using the estimated standard deviation $S_{n}$ in place of $σ$ . That is, assume now that $σ$ is unknown and must be estimated with $S_{n}$ .

5)

Suppose a researcher wished to estimate the mean resting heart rate of this population of students with a margin of error no greater than $2$ beats per minute with $95 %$ confidence. Using $S_{n}$ as a guess for $σ$ , suggest a sample size which should be just large enough for the researcher.

6)

A researcher wishes to know whether the mean resting heart rate for this population of students exceeds 80 bpm. Give

The null and alternate hypotheses of interest,
The value of the test statistic,
The critical value for testing the hypothesis at significance level $α = 0.05$ ,
The decision whether or not to reject $H_{0}$ , and
The p-value for testing these hypotheses based on the data.

7)

A researcher wishes to know whether the mean resting heart rate for this population of students equal to 82 bpm.

The null and alternate hypotheses of interest,
The value of the test statistic,
The critical value for testing the hypothesis at significance level $α = 0.10$ ,
The decision whether or not to reject $H_{0}$ , and
The p-value for testing these hypotheses based on the data.

8)

Suppose a researcher wants to test whether the mean resting heart rate in this population of students is greater than $75$ bpm. If the true mean is $77$ bpm or greater, the researcher would like to detect this with probability at least $90 %$ while using a significance level of $α = 0.05$ . Using the sample standard deviation as an estimate of the unknown population standard deviation $σ$ , give a recommended sample size for the researcher.

9)

Suppose a researcher wants to test whether the mean resting heart rate in this population of students is equal to $78$ bpm. If the true mean lies $2$ bpm or more away from this value, the researcher would like to detect this with probability at least $80 %$ while using a significance level of $α = 0.01$ . Using the sample standard deviation as an estimate of the unknown population standard deviation $σ$ , give a recommended sample size for the researcher.