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1. A company uses a pre-employment test to screen applicants for sales jobs. We are interested in whether the screning test is effective. In an experiment, a random samples of applicants who pass the test and a second sample of those who do not pass the screening test are all employed. The number of employees who successfully completed the training program in these two samples was recorded as follows.  

Experiment Result
Applicant who pass the pre-employment test
Applicant who do not pass the pre-employment test
Employees completed in the training program
67
15
Employees failed in the training program
28
22
Total number of Employees
95
37
 

a. Test whether the proportions of employee who successfully completed the training program is the same for the group who initially passed the pre-employment test to those who did not initially pass the pre-emplyment test. For this test use P(Type I error)=a=.05.

H0: pPass - pNot = 0

HA: pPass - pNot not equal to 0

T.S.:

RR: Reject if |z| > za/2=z0.025 = 1.96

Here, the test statistic value is 3.203 which is greater than 1.96 causing us to reject the null hypothesis and conclude that there is a significant difference between the completion rates for applicants who successfully pass the pre-employment test and those who do not. Clearly, the pre-employment test has some ability to screen applicants and increase completion rates for subsequent training.

b. Calculate a 95% confidence interval for the above difference.

The 95% confidence interval is computed using the equation:

[0.2988 ± 1.96(0.09329)] or [0.2988 ± 0.1828] or [0.1159, 0.48165]

Note that the 95% CI does not contain zero, a good indication that the difference is not statistically equal to zero.

 

2.A survey was made of 164 customers in a department store. These customers were divided into four groups with members of each group viewing only one of the four types of advertisements available for a certain product. The total numbers of customers who made purchases by viewing group are given below.

 

Four types of advertisement

Customers made purchases

Total

1.Advertisement A

27

39

2.Advertisement B

29

51

3.Advertisement C

17

31

4 Advertisement D

9

23

 

Can we determine from this whether there is a difference in the purchase fraction across the four groups?

These data represent a 2 by 4 contingency table but is presented in odd format. More commonly you would expect to see a table like the one below.

 
Purchase
Yes
No
Advertisement
A
27
12
B
29
22
C
17
14
D
9
14

We will use SPSS to analyse these data. We create the following dataset.

The Chi Square analysis is part of the ANALYZE > DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS > CROSSTABS options, but first we have to tell SPSS that the frequency counts for the advertisement by purchase combinations is in the count column. This is done with the DATA > WEIGHT CASES option. In the resulting dialog we set Weight Case By [COUNT]. Once this is done, we are ready to specify options in the ANALYZE > DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS > CROSSTABS dialog box. Set Rows to Advent, Cols to Purchuse, Statistics to Chi Square, and in the Cells dialog check Observed, Expected, Row, Column, Total. The resulting output follows.


ADVERT * PURCHASE Crosstabulation

PURCHASE Total
no yes
ADVERT A Count 12 27 39
Expected Count 16.8 22.2 39.0
% within ADVERT 30.8% 69.2% 100.0%
% within PURCHASE 19.4% 32.9% 27.1%
% of Total 8.3% 18.8% 27.1%
B Count 22 29 51
Expected Count 22.0 29.0 51.0
% within ADVERT 43.1% 56.9% 100.0%
% within PURCHASE 35.5% 35.4% 35.4%
% of Total 15.3% 20.1% 35.4%
C Count 14 17 31
Expected Count 13.3 17.7 31.0
% within ADVERT 45.2% 54.8% 100.0%
% within PURCHASE 22.6% 20.7% 21.5%
% of Total 9.7% 11.8% 21.5%
D Count 14 9 23
Expected Count 9.9 13.1 23.0
% within ADVERT 60.9% 39.1% 100.0%
% within PURCHASE 22.6% 11.0% 16.0%
% of Total 9.7% 6.3% 16.0%
Total Count 62 82 144
Expected Count 62.0 82.0 144.0
% within ADVERT 43.1% 56.9% 100.0%
% within PURCHASE 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
% of Total 43.1% 56.9% 100.0%

Chi-Square Tests

Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square 5.434(a) 3 .143
Likelihood Ratio 5.484 3 .140
N of Valid Cases 144

a 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 9.90.

The Chi Square statistic computed for this table is 5.434 with associated p-value of 0.143. This is larger than the 0.05 Type I error rate we chose to use initially hence we would NOT reject the null hypothesis of independence between advertisement and purchase decision. This suggests that the decision to purchase does not seem to depend on any particular advertisement, although, the difference between observed and expected counts in the D advertisement is the largest observed in the table.