Chapter 11: Q.83 (page 661)
Read the statement and decide whether it is true or false.
In a goodness of fit test, if the p-value is , in general, do not reject the null hypothesis
Short Answer
The statement is false
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Chapter 11: Q.83 (page 661)
Read the statement and decide whether it is true or false.
In a goodness of fit test, if the p-value is , in general, do not reject the null hypothesis
The statement is false
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The marital status distribution of the U.S. male population, ages and older, is as shown in Table 11.35.
| Martial Status | Percent | Frequency |
| never married | 31.3 | |
| married | 56.1 | |
| widowed | 2.5 | |
| divorced /separated | 10.1 |
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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Conduct a goodness-of-fit test to determine if the actual college majors of graduating females fit the distribution of their expected majors.
| Major | Women -Expected Major | Wome -Actual Major |
| Arts & Humaities | 14.0% | 670 |
| Biological Sciences | 8.4% | 410 |
| Business | 13.1% | 685 |
| Education | 13.0% | 650 |
| Engineering | 2.6% | 145 |
| Physical Sciences | 2.6% | 125 |
| Professional | 18.9% | 975 |
| Social Sciences | 13.0% | 605 |
| Technical | 0.4% | 15 |
| Other | 5.8% | 300 |
| Undecided | 8.0% | 420 |
Read the statement and decide whether it is true or false.
The number of degrees of freedom for a test of independence is equal to the sample size minus one.
Table contains information from a survey among participants classified according to their age groups. The second column shows the percentage of obese people per age class among the study participants. The last column comes from a different study at the national level that shows the corresponding percentages of obese people in the same age classes in the USA. Perform a hypothesis test at the % significance level to determine whether the survey participants are a representative sample of the USA obese population.
| Age Class (Years) | Obese Expected (percentage) | Obese Observed (Frequencies) |
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