Business Statistics (BA 1005)

Tutorial 7: Chi-Square Tests

1. The degrees of freedom for a single variable table of 10 samples is:

2. The degrees of freedom for a contingency table with 5 rows and 4 columns is:
3. What is the critical value for one way table of 9 samples at 1% significance?
4. What is the critical value for a contingency table of size 4 × 3 at 5% significance?

5. The Personnel Manager of a company believes that monthly paid staff take more time off work
through sickness than those staff who are paid weekly and do not belong to the company sickness
scheme). To determine whether there is any association between type of employee and numbers
of days off sick, the correct set of hypotheses is:

6. A sociologist wanted to determine whether there was a difference in the amount of time children
aged 5–7 spent watching television each day. Check the following data for evidence that the
number of minutes spent watching television is equally distributed throughout the week. The
data is shown as below.

Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Number of
200 112 123 130 160 225 247
Minutes

a) What is the degree of freedom?

b) What is the critical value at 5% and 0.1% significant levels?
c) Find the expected value
d) State the H0 and H1
e) Calculate the test statistic
f) State your conclusion

7. A sample of 200 components is selected from the output of a factory that uses three different
machines to manufacture these components. Each component in the sample is inspected to
determine whether it is defective or not. The machine that produced the component is also
recorded. The results are as follows:

Machine
Outcome A B C Total
Defective 16 12 24 52
Non-defective 108 124 116 348
Total 124 136 140 400

The manager wishes to determine whether there is a relationship between the proportion of
defectives and the machine used at 5% and 0.1% significance levels.

a) What is the degrees of freedom?

b) What is the critical value at 5% and 0.1% significant levels?
c) Find the expected values
d) State the H0 and H1
e) Calculate the test statistic
f) State your conclusion

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