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1. Your firm manufactures computers. You are sent a very large shipment of chips by a supplier. You want to accept this shipment only if ten percent or less of the chips are defective, which is the supplier's claim. Your procedure for deciding whether to accept the shipment is to randomly select a sample of 10 chips, test them, and accept the shipment if there are either zero defectives or one defective among the ten.
a. If in fact ten percent of the shipment is defective, what is the probability that you will accept the shipment?
b. Suppose you discover three defectives among the ten in your sample. Which is "more likely,"
(i) there really are ten percent defectives, and this particular sample of ten is unusual, or
(ii) the true proportion of defectives is twenty percent?
Note: There are two fundamentally different ways of approaching this question. One is to specify a "prior" probability that the defective rate is ten percent, and then use Bayes rule. To implement this approach, assume that the only two possible defective rates are ten percent and twenty percent. Also, it might make sense to be agnostic about the true defective rate-i.e., specify that the prior probability that the defective rate is ten percent is 50%, and the prior probability that the defective rate is twenty percent is 50%. This is the subjectivist or Bayesian approach. The second approach, which doesn't address the question exactly, is to (i) compute the probability of getting three defectives when the defective rate is ten percent, (ii) compute it for a defective rate of twenty percent, and (iii) choose whichever defective rate yields a higher probability. This is in the spirit of the frequents or classical approach
2. (Continued) Suppose the shipment is small in number-say your company receives a shipment of twenty chips. Your procedure for deciding to accept the shipment is the same- you randomly select 10 chips, and accept the shipment in this sample you find either zero or one defective. If the defective rate is ten percent-in other words, if there are in truth two defective chips in the shipment-what is the probability that you will accept the shipment?
3. Your firm receives an average of 1.3 returns each day for warranty repairs. What is the probability that on a given day, there will be no returns? Three or more returns?
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