Chapter 11: Q.61 (page 731)
Design (4.2) Was this an observational study or an experiment? Justify your answer.
Short Answer
The study is the experimental study.
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Chapter 11: Q.61 (page 731)
Design (4.2) Was this an observational study or an experiment? Justify your answer.
The study is the experimental study.
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A survey by the National Institutes of Health asked a random sample of young adults (aged 19 to 25 years), 鈥淲here do you live now? That is, where do you stay most often?鈥 Here is the full two-way table (omitting a few who refused to answer and one who claimed to be homeless):

a) Should we use a chi-square test for homogeneity or a chi-square test of association/independence in this setting? Justify your answer.
(b) State appropriate hypotheses for performing the type of test you chose in part (a). Minitab output from a chi-square test is shown below

(c) Check that the conditions for carrying out the test are met.
(d) Interpret the P-value in context. What conclusion would you draw?
Software gives test statistic and -value close to 0 . The correct interpretation of this result is
(a) the probability of getting a random sample of teens that yields a value of of or larger is basically .
(b) the probability of getting a random sample of teens that yields a value of of or larger if is true is basically .
(c) the probability of making a Type I error is basically .
(d) the probability of making a Type II error is basically .
(e) it's very unlikely that these data are true.
Refer to Exercise 27. Do the data provide convincing evidence of a difference in the distributions of sports goals for male and female undergraduates at the university?
(a) State appropriate null and alternative hypotheses for a significance test to help answer this question.
(b) Calculate the expected counts. Show your work.
(c) Calculate the chi-square statistic. Show your work
From exercise

Which hypotheses would be appropriate for performing a chi-square test?
(a) The null hypothesis is that the closer students get to graduation, the less likely they are to be opposed to tuition increases. The alternative is that how close students are to graduation makes no difference in their opinion.
(b) The null hypothesis is that the mean number of students who are strongly opposed is the same for each of the four years. The alternative is that the mean is different for at least two of the four years.
(c) The null hypothesis is that the distribution of student opinion about the proposed tuition increase is the same for each of the four years at this university. The alternative is that the distribution is different for at least two of the four years.
(d) The null hypothesis is that year in school and student opinion about the tuition increase in the sample are independent. The alternative is that these variables are dependent.
(e) The null hypothesis is that there is an association between a year in school and opinion about the tuition increase at this university. The alternative hypothesis is that these variables are not associated.
An appropriate null hypothesis to test whether the trees in the forest are randomly distributed is
(a) , where the mean number of trees in each quadrant.
(b) , where the proportion of all trees in the forest that are in Quadrant
(c) , where is the number of trees from the sample in Quadrant .
(d) , where is the actual proportion of trees in the forest that are in Quadrant .
(e) , where is the proportion of trees in the sample that are in Quadrant
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