Practice: M08 — Hypothesis Testing

Module: M08 Glossary: M08 Terms


Topic 1: Process of Hypothesis Testing

Question 1: State the hypotheses for testing whether:

  • (i) Population mean return equals 6%
  • (ii) Population mean return is greater than 6%
  • (iii) Population mean return is less than 6%

Question 2: A two-tailed test at 5% significance has z-critical value = ±1.96. The calculated test statistic is 2.15. The decision is:

A. Fail to reject B. Reject C. Accept


Topic 2: Test of Single Mean

Question 3: ACE High Yield Total Return Index — test if mean daily returns differ between two periods:

Period 1Period 2
Mean0.01775%0.01134%
Std Dev0.31580%0.38760%
Sample size445 days859 days

Test at 5% significance whether means are different.


Topic 3: Test of Single Variance (Chi-Square)

Question 4: Sendar Equity Fund, 24 months, mean monthly return = 1.50%, std dev = 3.60%. Test whether at 5% significance.


Topic 4: Test of Variance Equality (F-Test)

Question 5: You investigate whether population variance of returns changed after a market disruption:

BeforeAfter
n120120
Mean monthly return1.416%1.436%
Variance22.36715.795

Test at 0.05 significance. F-test critical values: 0.6969 and 1.4349.


Topic 5: p-Value

Question 6: If a test has a p-value of 0.03, which of the following is correct?

A. Reject at 1% significance B. Reject at 5% significance C. Fail to reject at 10% significance