MULTINOMIAL

a) State the problem you wish to investigate with the data set you have.
b) Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses. Use 0.05 level of significance.
c) State and check the assumptions.
d) Present the results and interpretation.
e) Include your data set as appendix

Suppose a class adviser hypothesizes that an equal number of students will choose
each of four subjects they are comfortable with. To test this, she records the number of students
who choose either- English, Mathematics, Science and Filipino for their subjects of interest. The
following table shows the results:

Subjects Probability Number of Students

English ¼ 10

Mathematics ¼ 3

Science ¼ 5

Filipino ¼ 12

Hо: A categorical variable follows a hypothesized distribution.

Hᴀ: A categorical variable does not follow the hypothesized distribution.

 Observed Counts
Reporting the Results
The variable subjects imply 4 categories, one for each subject, which means that the
expected frequencies of number of students per subjects is 30/4 which is approximately equal to
8. With X² (3) = 7.067, p< 0.70, the null hypothesis of equal frequencies across categories is
rejected.