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Worksheet: 2 "chi-square" probability distribution

1: Hypothesis Test for Goodness of Fit (GOF)

Are calls for emergency medical services uniformly distributed by day of week?
A city is reviewing staffing levels and staffing schedules for their emergency medical response team. To determine if EMS calls in this city are uniformly distributed by day of the week, they
analyzed data for a sample of 575 EMS calls.

Day of the Week Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat.
Number of EMS calls 88 79 84 85 77 75 87

Null Hypothesis Ho: _________________________________________________________


____________________________________________________________________________
Alternate Hypothesis HA: _______________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
 = 0.01

L1 L2 L3= (L1-L2)2/L2
Observed Data Expected Data (Observed – Expected)2
Expected
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Total = Total = Test Statistic = Sum = ________


The test statistic measures the size of the differences between the distributions.

____________degrees of freedom

Critical value = __________________________

Decision: ________________________________________________
Conclusion: ___________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

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2: 2 Hypothesis Test for Independence

An economics professor believes that whether a student uses the textbook in print form or as an ebook
won’t affect their exam grade. The exam grade and the format of textbook the student used are
summarized in the table below for a sample of 300 randomly selected students over the academic year.
At a 5% level of significance, can we conclude that textbook format and exam grade are related?

OBSERVED Textbook Format Used


DATA Print
textbook ebook TOTAL
Grade A 23 17 40
Earned B 42 48 90
On
Exam C 55 75 130
D 12 8 20
F 8 12 20
TOTAL 140 160 300

Ho: ___________________________________________________________________________

Ha: ____________________________________________________________________________

Use the _________ test on your calculator to find the following:


Test Statistic = ________ pvalue = _______
Show calculation for Degrees of freedom = ___________________

What probability distribution is used to calculate the pvalue: _________

Decision: ________________________Reason for Decision: __________________________


Is the result Statistically Significant (circle one): YES NO
Conclusion:

Find the output matrix with the EXPECTED DATA and fill it in. Then show the calculation for the
expected data for “A and ebook” and the expected value for “D and print”. Round to 2 decimal places).

OBSERVED Textbook Format Used


DATA Print
textbook ebook TOTAL
Grade A 40
Earned B 90
On
Exam C 130
D 20
F 20
TOTAL 140 160 300

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