Instrument precision. When new instruments are developed to perform chemical analyses of products (food, medicine, etc.), they are usually evaluated with respect to two criteria: accuracy and precision. Accuracy refers to the ability of the instrument to identify correctly the nature and amounts of a product’s components. Precision refers to the consistency with which the instrument will identify the components of the same material. Thus, a large variability in the identification of a single batch of a product indicates a lack of precision. Suppose a pharmaceutical firm is considering two brands of an instrument designed to identify the components of certain drugs. As part of a comparison of precision, 10 test-tube samples of a well-mixed batch of a drug are selected and then 5 are analyzed by instrument A and 5 by instrument B. The data shown below are the percentages of the primary component of the drug given by the instruments. Do these data provide evidence of a difference in the precision of the two machines? Use α = .10.
Instrument A | Instrument B |
43 | 46 |
48 | 49 |
37 | 43 |
52 | 41 |
45 | 48 |
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