Exam 12: Chi-Square Tests and Nonparametric Tests

TABLE 12-8 A study published in the American Journal of Public Health was conducted to determine whether the use of seat belts in motor vehicles in San Diego County depends on ethnic status. A sample of 792 children treated for injuries sustained from motor vehicle accidents was obtained, and each child was classified according to (1) ethnic status (Hispanic or non-Hispanic) and (2) seat belt usage (worn or not worn) during the accident. The number of children in each category is given in the table below. Hisparnic Non-Hisparic Seat belts worI 31 148 Seat belts not worI! 283 330 -Referring to Table 12-8, which test would be used to properly analyze the data in this experiment?

The McNemar test is approximately distributed as a standardized normal random variable.

TABLE 12-16 A filling machine at a local soft drinks company is calibrated to fill the cans at a mean amount of 12 fluid ounces and a standard deviation of 0.5 ounces. The company wants to test whether the standard deviation of the amount filled by the machine is 0.5 ounces. A random sample of 15 cans filled by the machine reveals a standard deviation of 0.67 ounces. -Referring to Table 12-16, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the standard deviation of the amount filled by the machine is not exactly 0.5 ounces when using a 10% level of significance.

TABLE 12-2 The dean of a college is interested in the proportion of graduates from his college who have a job offer on graduation day. He is particularly interested in seeing if there is a difference in this proportion for accounting and economics majors. In a random sample of 100 of each type of major at graduation, he found that 65 accounting majors and 52 economics majors had job offers. If the accounting majors are designated as "Group 1" and the economics majors are designated as "Group 2," perform the appropriate hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05. -Referring to Table 12-2, the same decision would be made with this test if the level of significance had been 0.10 rather than 0.05.

TABLE 12-3 The director of transportation of a large company is interested in the usage of her van pool. She considers her routes to be divided into local and non-local. She is particularly interested in learning if there is a difference in the proportion of males and females who use the local routes. She takes a sample of a day's riders and finds the following: Male Ferrale Total Local 27 44 71 Nor1-Local 33 25 58 Total 60 69 129 She will use this information to perform a chi-square hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05. -Referring to Table 12-3, the decision made suggests that there is a difference between the proportion of males and females who ride local versus non-local routes.

TABLE 12-7 Data on the percentage of 200 hotels in each of the three large cities across the world on whether minibar charges are correctly posted at checkout are given below. Hong Kong New York Paris Yes 86\% 76\% 78\% No 14\% 24\% 22\% At the 0.05 level of significance, you want to know if there is evidence of a difference in the proportion of hotels that correctly post minibar charges among the three cities. -Referring to Table 12-7, the decision made suggests that the 3 cities do not all have the same proportion of hotels that correctly post minibar charges.

TABLE 12-5 Four surgical procedures currently are used to install pacemakers. If the patient does not need to return for follow-up surgery, the operation is called a "clear" operation. A heart center wants to compare the proportion of clear operations for the 4 procedures and collects the following numbers of patients from their own records: Procedure A B C D Total Clear 27 41 21 7 96 Return 11 15 9 11 46 Total 38 56 30 18 142 They will use this information to test for a difference among the proportion of clear operations using a chi-square test with a level of significance of 0.05. -Referring to Table 12-5, the decision made suggests that the 4 procedures all have different proportions of clear operations.

TABLE 12-7 Data on the percentage of 200 hotels in each of the three large cities across the world on whether minibar charges are correctly posted at checkout are given below. Hong Kong New York Paris Yes 86\% 76\% 78\% No 14\% 24\% 22\% At the 0.05 level of significance, you want to know if there is evidence of a difference in the proportion of hotels that correctly post minibar charges among the three cities. -Referring to Table 12-7, the test will involve ________ degrees of freedom.

If we wish to determine whether there is evidence that the proportion of items of interest is the same in group 1 as in group 2, the appropriate test to use is

TABLE 12-10 One criterion used to evaluate employees in the assembly section of a large factory is the number of defective pieces per 1,000 parts produced. The quality control department wants to find out whether there is a relationship between years of experience and defect rate. Since the job is repetitious, after the initial training period any improvement due to a learning effect might be offset by a loss of motivation. A defect rate is calculated for each worker in a yearly evaluation. The results for 100 workers are given in the table below. Years Since Training Period Digefect Rate: High <1 Year 1-4 Years 5-9 Years 6 9 9 Average 9 19 23 Low 7 8 10 -Referring to Table 12-10, for the cell with 1 to 4 years of training time and a high defect rate, what is the contribution to the overall X² statistic for the independence test?

TABLE 12-6 According to an article in Marketing News, fewer checks are being written at the grocery store checkout than in the past. To determine whether there is a difference in the proportion of shoppers who pay by check among three consecutive years at a 0.05 level of significance, the results of a survey of 500 shoppers in three consecutive years are obtained and presented below. Year Check Written Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Yes 225 175 125 No 275 325 375 -Referring to Table 12-6, what is the critical value?

TABLE 12-4 A computer used by a 24-hour banking service is supposed to randomly assign each transaction to one of 5 memory locations. A check at the end of a day's transactions gave the counts shown in the table to each of the 5 memory locations, along with the number of reported errors. Memory Location 1 2 3 4 5 Number of Transactions 82 100 74 92 102 Number of Reported Errors 11 12 6 9 10 The bank manager wanted to test whether the proportion of errors in transactions assigned to each of the 5 memory locations differ. -Referring to Table 12-4, the calculated value of the test statistic is

TABLE 12-12 Parents complain that children read too few storybooks and watch too much television nowadays. A survey of 1,000 children reveals the following information on average time spent watching TV and average time spent reading storybooks. Average time spent reading story books Average time spent watching TV Less than 1 hour Between land 2 hours More than 2 hours Less than 2 hours 90 85 130 More than 2 hours 655 32 8 -Referring to Table 12-12, if the null hypothesis of no connection between time spent watching TV and time spent reading storybooks is true, how many children watching less than 2 hours of TV and reading more than 2 hours of storybooks on average can we expect?

TABLE 12-2 The dean of a college is interested in the proportion of graduates from his college who have a job offer on graduation day. He is particularly interested in seeing if there is a difference in this proportion for accounting and economics majors. In a random sample of 100 of each type of major at graduation, he found that 65 accounting majors and 52 economics majors had job offers. If the accounting majors are designated as "Group 1" and the economics majors are designated as "Group 2," perform the appropriate hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05. -Referring to Table 12-2, the null hypothesis should be rejected.

TABLE 12-6 According to an article in Marketing News, fewer checks are being written at the grocery store checkout than in the past. To determine whether there is a difference in the proportion of shoppers who pay by check among three consecutive years at a 0.05 level of significance, the results of a survey of 500 shoppers in three consecutive years are obtained and presented below. Year Check Written Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Yes 225 175 125 No 275 325 375 -Referring to Table 12-6, what is the form of the null hypothesis?

TABLE 12-9 Many companies use well-known celebrities as spokespersons in their TV advertisements. A study was conducted to determine whether brand awareness of female TV viewers and the gender of the spokesperson are independent. Each in a sample of 300 female TV viewers was asked to identify a product advertised by a celebrity spokesperson. The gender of the spokesperson and whether or not the viewer could identify the product was recorded. The numbers in each category are given below. Male Celebrity Fernale Celebrity Identified product 41 61 Could not identify 109 89 -Referring to Table 12-9, the calculated test statistic is

TABLE 12-1 A corporation randomly selects 150 salespeople and finds that 66% who have never taken a self-improvement course would like such a course. The firm did a similar study 10 years ago in which 60% of a random sample of 160 salespeople wanted a self-improvement course. The groups are assumed to be independent random samples. Let π₁ and π₂ represent the true proportion of workers who would like to attend a self-improvement course in the recent study and the past study, respectively. -Referring to Table 12-1, what is the critical value when testing whether the population proportions are different if α = 0.10?

TABLE 12-11 The director of admissions at a state college is interested in seeing if admissions status (admitted, waiting list, denied admission) at his college is independent of the type of community in which an applicant resides. He takes a sample of recent admissions decisions and forms the following table: Admitted Wait List Denied Total Urban 45 21 17 83 Rural 33 13 24 70 Suburban 34 12 39 85 Total 112 46 80 238 He will use this table to do a chi-square test of independence with a level of significance of 0.01. -Referring to Table 12-11, the null hypothesis will be rejected.

TABLE 12-4 A computer used by a 24-hour banking service is supposed to randomly assign each transaction to one of 5 memory locations. A check at the end of a day's transactions gave the counts shown in the table to each of the 5 memory locations, along with the number of reported errors. Memory Location 1 2 3 4 5 Number of Transactions 82 100 74 92 102 Number of Reported Errors 11 12 6 9 10 The bank manager wanted to test whether the proportion of errors in transactions assigned to each of the 5 memory locations differ. -Referring to Table 12-4, the degrees of freedom of the test statistic is

TABLE 12-6 According to an article in Marketing News, fewer checks are being written at the grocery store checkout than in the past. To determine whether there is a difference in the proportion of shoppers who pay by check among three consecutive years at a 0.05 level of significance, the results of a survey of 500 shoppers in three consecutive years are obtained and presented below. Year Check Written Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Yes 225 175 125 No 275 325 375 -Referring to Table 12-6, the null hypothesis cannot be rejected.