Decision Sciences

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STAT 202 Business Statistics II, Fall 2014

Chapter 15. Chi-Square Tests

True/False Questions
1. If two variables are independent, we would anticipate a chi-square test statistic close to
zero.
2. The shape of the chi-square distribution depends only on its degrees of freedom.
3. In a chi-square test for independence, expected frequencies must be integers (or rounded
to the nearest integer).
4. In samples drawn from a population in which the row and column categories are
independent, the value of the chi-square test statistic will be zero.
5. The chi-square test for independence is a nonparametric test (no parameters are
estimated).
6. Cochran's Rule requires observed frequencies of 5 or more in each cell of a contingency
table.
7. A large negative chi-square test statistic would indicate that the null hypothesis should be
rejected.
8. The chi-square test is unreliable when there are any cells with small-observed frequency
counts.
9. The chi-square test can only be used to assess independence between two variables.
10. The chi-square test is based on the analysis of frequencies.
11. A chi-square test for independence is called a distribution-free test since the test is based
on categorical data rather than on populations that follow any particular distribution..
12. Observed frequencies in a chi-square goodness-of-fit test for normality may be less than
5 or even 0 in some cells, as long as the expected frequencies are large enough.
13. For a chi-square goodness-of-fit test for a uniform distribution with 5 categories, we
would use the critical value for 4 degrees of freedom.
14. For a chi-square goodness-of-fit test for a normal distribution using 8 categories with
estimated mean and standard deviation, we would use the critical value for 7 degrees of
freedom.
15. In a test for a uniform distribution with k categories, the expected frequency is n/k in each
cell.