Artificial Heart Problems from Ch4Part1HW.

Medical researchers have developed a new artificial heart constructed primarily of titanium and plastic. The heart will
last and operate almost indefinitely once it is implanted in the patient's body, but the battery pack needs to be
recharged about every four hours. A random sample of 50 battery packs is selected and subjected to a life test. The
average life of these batteries is 4.05 hours. Assume that battery life is normally distributed with standard deviation
equal to 0.2 hours. Analysts wish to test the hypothesis that the mean life of battery packs is bigger than 4 hours.
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Using Type I error probability = 0.05, what is the numerical value of the test statistic taken to two decimal
places?
Is this a one-sided upper, one-sided lower, or two-sided hypothesis test?
What will the analyst conclude?
What are the values of L and U such that P(L < < U) = .95? (This is called a 95% confidence interval about
the mean.)
What is the p-value for this test?
What is the Type II error probability, b, if the TRUE mean is 4.03 hours?

Wiley Plus Ch.4HWPart1: Problems about p-value

Suppose that we are testing H0 : versus H0 : . Compute the p-value for the
following observed values of the test statistic:
z0 = -1.91

z0 = .63

Suppose that we are testing H0 : versus H0 : . Compute the p-value for the
following observed values of the test statistic:
z0 = -1.91

z0 = .63