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Minitab Cookbook

By : Isaac A Newton
Book Image

Minitab Cookbook

By: Isaac A Newton

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Minitab Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the Power and Sample Size tool for a 1 Proportion test


In the 1 Proportion test example, we have 92 students and 28 smokers in the group. The sample shows 30.4 percent of the group as smokers. The results from a 1 Proportion test will indicate that we cannot reject the null hypothesis.

For this recipe, we want to know how many students we need to sample in order to be able to observe a difference of 2.5 percent or 5 percent between the hypothesized and actual proportions that have a power of 80 percent. We will use a hypothesized proportion of 25 percent and differences of 2.5 and 5 percent.

How to do it…

The following steps will help us find the number of samples needed to identify a difference of 2.5 percent or 5 percent with at least an 80 percent chance of identifying this difference:

  1. Go to the Stat menu, click on Power and Sample Size, and select 1 Proportion….

  2. Enter .25 in the Hypothesized proportion: field.

  3. Enter .2 .225 .275 .3 in the Comparison proportions: field and .8 in the Power...