Cloud seeding has been studied for many decades as a weather modification procedure. The rainfall in acre-feet from 18 clouds that were selected at random and seeded with silver nitrate follows:
18.0, 30.7, 19.8, 27.1, 22.3, 18.8, 31.8, 23.4, 21.2, 27.9, 31.9, 27.1, 25.0, 24.7, 26.9, 21.8, 29.2, and 34.8.
(a) Can you support a claim that means rainfall from seeded clouds exceeds 25 acre-feet? Use a= 0.01. Find the P-value.
(b) Check that rainfall is normally distributed.
(c) Compute the power of the test if the true mean rainfall is 27 acre-feet.
(d) What sample size would be required to detect a true mean rainfall of 27.5 acre-feet if you wanted the power of the test to be at least 0.9?
(e) Explain how the question in part (a) could be answered by constructing a one-sided confidence bound on the mean rainfall rate.