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Chapter 11: Q.38 (page 656)
value:
The value is zero.
Given data:
The formula, as shown below, can be used to determine the p value in an excel sheet.
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The expected percentage of the number of pets students have in their homes is distributed (this is the given distribution for the student population of the United States) as in Table 11.12.
A random sample of students from the Eastern United States resulted in the data in Table 11.13.
At the significance level, does it appear that the distribution “number of pets” of students in the Eastern United States is different from the distribution for the United States student population as a whole? What is the p-value?
a. Explain why a goodness-of-fit test and a test of independence are generally right-tailed tests.
b. If you did a left-tailed test, what would you be testing?
Use the following information to answer the next nine exercise: The following data are real. the cumulative number of AIDS cases reported for Santa Clary Country is broken down by ethnicity as in table 11.29
The percentage of each ethnic group in Santa Clary Country is as in Table shown below
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Determine the appropriate test to be used in the next three exercises.
An economist is deriving a model to predict outcomes on the stock market. He creates a list of expected points on the stock market index for the next two weeks. At the close of each day's trading, he records the actual points on the index. He wants to see how well his model matched what actually happened.
use a solution sheet to solve the hypothesis test problem. Go to Appendix E for the chi-square solution sheet. Round expected frequency to two decimal places car manufacturers are interested in whether there is a relationship between the size of the car an individual drives and the number of people in the driver’s family (that is, whether car size and family size are independent).To test this, suppose that car owners were randomly surveyed with the results in Table . Conduct a test of independence.
| Family Size | Sub & Compact | Mid-size | Full-size | Van & Truck |
Table 11.44
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