Smoking Cessation Programs Among 198 smokers who underwent a “sustained care” program, 51 were no longer smoking after six months. Among 199 smokers who underwent a “standard care” program, 30 were no longer smoking after six months (based on data from “Sustained Care Intervention and Postdischarge Smoking Cessation Among Hospitalized Adults,” by Rigotti et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 312, No. 7). We want to use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the rate of success for smoking cessation is greater with the sustained care program. Test the claim using a hypothesis test.

Smoking Cessation Programs

b. Does the difference between the success rate of the sustained care program and the standard care program appear to have practical significance?

In Exercises 1–10, based on the nature of the given data, do the following:

a. Pose a key question that is relevant to the given data.

b. Identify a procedure or tool from this chapter or the preceding chapters to address the key question from part (a).

c. Analyze the data and state a conclusion.

Video Games In a survey of subjects aged 18–29, subjects were asked if they play video games often or sometimes. Among 984 females, 49% answered “yes” (based on data from a Pew Research Center survey).

In Exercises 1–10, based on the nature of the given data, do the following:

a. Pose a key question that is relevant to the given data.

b. Identify a procedure or tool from this chapter or the preceding chapters to address the key question from part (a).

c. Analyze the data and state a conclusion.

Video Games In a survey of subjects aged 18–29, subjects were asked if they play video games often or sometimes. Among 1017 males, 72% answered “yes.” Among 984 females, 49% answered “yes” (based on data from a Pew Research Center survey).

In Exercises 1–10, based on the nature of the given data, do the following:

a. Pose a key question that is relevant to the given data.

b. Identify a procedure or tool from this chapter or the preceding chapters to address the key question from part (a).

c. Analyze the data and state a conclusion.

IQ Scores of Twins Listed below are IQ scores of twins listed in Data Set 12 “IQ and Brain Size” in Appendix B. The data are pairs of IQ scores from ten different families.

Randomization: Testing a Claim About a Proportion

In Exercises 5–8, use the randomization procedure for the indicated exercise.

Section 8-2, Exercise 9 “Cursed Movie”

Randomization: Testing a Claim About a Mean

In Exercises 9–12, use the randomization procedure for the indicated exercise.

Section 8-3, Exercise 21 “Lead in Medicine”

Dogs Detecting Malaria The following table lists results from an experiment designed to test the ability of dogs to use their extraordinary sense of smell to detect malaria in samples of children’s socks (based on data presented at an annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, by principal investigator Steve Lindsay). Assuming that the dog being correct is independent of whether malaria is present, find the expected value for the observed frequency of 123.

Identifying Hypotheses Refer to the data given in Exercise 1 and assume that the requirements are all satisfied and we want to conduct a hypothesis test of independence using the methods of this section. Identify the null and alternative hypotheses.