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Examination of Environmental Statistics (A) for undergraduate students majoring in environmental Sciences (The first semester of the Academic Year 2005(2006) ID number Class: Name: Scores Part one: Basic knowledge Part two: Statistical analyses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Part one: Basic knowledge (40%; 5 points for each) Population and sample How to sample from populations? How to show the dispersion or variability of a given set of data? What are the basic assumptions that should be met when using parametric analyses? What are statistical hypotheses? (Please also give an example) What are the general procedures for ANCOVA (analysis of covariance)? What are the statistical errors (Please show the difference between Type I and Type II errors)? The normal distribution Part two: Statistical analyses (60%) (7 points) The following sample data are on the length of the menstrual cycle in a random sample of human females (N = 15): 26, 24, 29, 33, 25, 26, 23, 30, 28, 27, 29, 26, 31, 27 and 28 days Please use one-sample t-test to test for the hypothesis that the mean length of human menstrual cycles is equal to a lunar month (a lunar month is 29.5 days). Please note that the two-tailed critical t value is 2.14 when P = 0.05 and df= 14.  (10 points) The Mann-Whitney test for ordinal data (The performance of students is the same under the two teaching assistants). Please complete the following Table with tied ranks by filling the parentheses, and then test for whether the performance of student is the same under the two teaching assistants. Teaching assistant A Teaching assistant B Grade Rank of grade Grade Rank of grade A ( ) A ( ) A ( ) A ( ) A ( ) B + ( ) A( ( ) B + ( ) B ( ) B ( ) B ( ) B( ( ) C+ ( ) C ( ) C+ ( ) C ( ) C ( ) C( ( ) C ( ) D ( ) C( ( ) D ( ) D (