The document discusses using chi-square procedures and data from 500 violent crime reports from last year and the 2000 distribution to determine if last year's violent crime distribution has changed from 2000. It provides procedures for conducting a chi-square goodness of fit test and continuing the procedures.
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Chi-Square Procedures Goodness of Fit
The document discusses using chi-square procedures and data from 500 violent crime reports from last year and the 2000 distribution to determine if last year's violent crime distribution has changed from 2000. It provides procedures for conducting a chi-square goodness of fit test and continuing the procedures.
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Chapter 13
Chi-Square Procedures Goodness of fit
A violent crime is classified by the FBI as murder, forcible rape, robbery, or aggravated assault. A random sample of 500 violent- crime reports from last year yielded the frequency distribution shown in Table 13.2. Suppose that we want to use the data in Tables 13.1 and 13.2 to decide whether last year’s distribution of violent crimes has changed from the 2000 distribution given in table 13.2. 2000 distribution Last year sample Procedure 13.1 Procedure 13.1 (cont.)