4.II.19C

Statistics | Part IB, 2006

Two series of experiments are performed, the first resulting in observations X1,,XmX_{1}, \ldots, X_{m}, the second resulting in observations Y1,,YnY_{1}, \ldots, Y_{n}. We assume that all observations are independent and normally distributed, with unknown means μX\mu_{X} in the first series and μY\mu_{Y} in the second series. We assume further that the variances of the observations are unknown but are all equal.

Write down the distributions of the sample mean Xˉ=m1i=1mXi\bar{X}=m^{-1} \sum_{i=1}^{m} X_{i} and sum of squares SXX=i=1m(XiXˉ)2S_{X X}=\sum_{i=1}^{m}\left(X_{i}-\bar{X}\right)^{2}.

Hence obtain a statistic T(X,Y)T(X, Y) to test the hypothesis H0:μX=μYH_{0}: \mu_{X}=\mu_{Y} against H1:μX>μYH_{1}: \mu_{X}>\mu_{Y} and derive its distribution under H0H_{0}. Explain how you would carry out a test of size α=1/100\alpha=1 / 100.

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