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University Examinations 2020/2021
FIRST YEAR FIRST SEMESTER SPECIAL/ SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION FOR
THE DOCTORATE IN EDUCATION
EMM 8001: ADVANCED STATISTICAL METHODS
DATE: APRIL 2022 TIME: 3 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question one and any other three questions
QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)
a) After graduation ceremonies at a university, six graduates were asked whether they were
in favour of (identified by 1) or against (identified by 0) adoption. Some information
about these graduates is shown below
Graduate Sex Age Adoption issue Class rank
Nkatha F 24 1 1
Kamau M 22 1 2
Aketch F 41 0 3
Hassan M 38 0 20
Kemunto F 25 1 4
Resian M 19 0 8
i. How many elements are in the data set? (1 mark)
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ii. How many variables are in the data set? (1 mark)
iii. How many observations are in the data set? (1 mark)
iv. Which of the above variables are categorical and which are quantitative variables?
(2 marks)
v. Are arithmetic operations appropriate for the variable “adoption issue”? give your
reasons (7 marks)
A group of young businesswomen wish to open a high fashion boutique in a vacant store
but only if the average income of households in the area is at least ksh. 250,000. A
random sample of 9 households showed the following results
Kshs. 280,000 Kshs.240,000 Kshs.260,000 Kshs. 250.000
Kshs. 230,000 Kshs. 270,000 Kshs. 260,000 Kshs. 220,000
Kshs. 240,000
Assume the population of incomes is normally distributed
i. Compute the sample mean (2 marks)
ii. Compute the standard deviation (4 marks)
iii. State the hypotheses for this problem (2 marks)
iv. Compute the test statistic (4 marks)
QUESTION TWO (12 MARKS)
a) A professor at a local community college noted that the grades of his students were
normally distributed with a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 10. The professor has
informed us that 6.3 percent of his students received A’s while only 2.5 percent of his
students failed the course and received F’s
i. What is the minimum score needed to make an A? (4 marks)
ii. What is the maximum score among those who received an F? (4 marks)
iii. If there were 5 students who did not pass the course, how many students took the
course? (4 marks)
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QUESTION THREE (12 MARKS)
In the past, the average age of lecturers in a local university has been 40 years. Recently the
University has been hiring older individuals. In order to determine whether there has been
an increase in the average age of all the lecturers, a sample of 64 lecturers was selected. The
average age in the sample was 45 years with a standard deviation of 16 years. Let α = 05
a) State the null and the alternatively hypotheses both in symbols and words (4 marks)
b) Compute the test statistics (4 marks)
c) Test to determine whether or not the mean age of all lecturers is significantly more than
40 years (4 marks)
QUESTION FOUR (12 MARKS)
Information regarding random samples of annual salaries (in thousands of dollars) of doctors
in three different specialties is shown below
Paediatrics Radiology Pathology
Sample size 12 10 11
Average salary 120 186 240
Sample variance 16 18 20
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a) Compute the overall mean x (3 marks)
b) State the null and alternative hypothesis to be tested (2 marks)
c) Show the complete ANOVA table for this test including the test statistics (4 marks)
d) The null hypothesis is to be tested at 95% confidence. Determine the critical value for
this test. What do you conclude? (3 marks)
e) Determine the p-value and use it for the test (2 marks)
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QUESTION FIVE (12 MARKS)
Part of an excel output relating Y (dependent variable) and 4 independent variables, X1
through X4, is shown below
Regression statistics
Multiple R ?
R Square ?
Adjusted R Square ?
Standard Error 72.6093
Observations 20
ANOVA
df SS MS F Significance F
Regression ? 422975.2376 ? ? 0.0000
Residual ? ? ?
Total ? ?
Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value
Intercept -203.6125 100.2940 ? 0.0605
X1 0.6483 0.1110 ? 0.0000
X2 0.0190 0.0065 ? 0.0101
X3 40.4577 7.5940 ? 0.0001
X4 -0.1032 20.7823 ? 0.9961
a) Fill in all the blanks marked with “?” (8 marks)
b) At 95% confidence, which independent variables are significant and which ones are not?
Fully explain how you arrived at your answers (4 marks)
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