Chi Square Analysis Additional Practice Problems

Contents:
chi-square test of independence; chi-square test of homogeneity; chi-square goodness-of-fit test for the binomial distribution; chi-square goodness-of-fit test for the Poisson distribution (two of these); chi-square goodness-of-fit test for the normal distribution.

Setting One: In the wake of the November 2004 presidential elections various analyses were conducted including a number that attempt to understand differences in voting patterns among various demographic groups. In one such analysis samples of 200 registered voters each from various geographic regions were asked about their presidential candidate of choice. The following results were obtained:

Candidate Location
Northeastern US, major cities Northeastern US, other Upper Midwest, major cities Upper Midwest, other Southeast and Lower Midwest, major cities Southeast and Lower Midwest, other Southwest and Rocky Mountain, major cities Southwest and Rocky Mountain, other Pacific and Pacific Northwest, major cities Pacific and Pacific Northwest, other total

Bush
46 90 89 106 120 137 110 128 72 94 992

Kerry
144 102 107 89 74 60 80 66 114 93 929

Other
10 8 4 5 6 3 10 6 14 13 79

Total
200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 2,000

Do the various geographic groups vary with respect to presidential candidate preference? Conduct the appropriate test of hypothesis at the = .01 level of significance. Setting Two: The fire and rescue department in a US city with a metropolitan population of approximately 150,000 believes that the number of fires to which they respond each day is Poisson distributed with a mean of 2.1. Using the data below, test this hypothesis at the = .05 level of significance. The data is based on a sample of 200 days worth of information. Number of Fires Responded to: Number of Days:
0 10 1 30 2 40 3 45 4 35 5 18 6 10 7+ 12

Setting Two A: given the prior description, suppose only that the fire and rescue department had only conjectured that the number of fires to which they must respond each day is Poisson distributed, but that they did not specify a mean. Use the data above again and test the appropriate hypothesis at the = .05 level of significance. To do this you will need to use Xbar to estimate and in doing this, for the last category (7 or more fires), treat all 12 days as though there were exactly 7 fires on each of those days. Setting Three: An energy company is studying the viability of a rate increase and believes that the maximum increase that customers will tolerate before seeking alternative supply sources is normally distributed with a mean of 17% and a standard deviation of 4%. Test the appropriate hypothesis at the = .10 level of significance if a scientific survey of 500 customers gave the following results:
Maximum % Increase Number of Customers Under 12% 52 12%-14% 56 14%-16% 96 16%-18% 124 18%-20% 80 20%-22% 48 Over 22% 44

Setting Four: Are class attendance and course performance related? Test the appropriate hypothesis at the = .05 level of significance given the following data which comes from an end of the semester random sample of records of 500 students enrolled in a multi-section, bi-weekly general psychology course at a very large public university. Numbe r of Days Missed Course Grade .

A
36 20 10 4 0 70

B
60 50 30 8 2 150

C
65 60 30 15 10 180

D
6 12 18 20 14 70

F
1 6 7 8 8 30

Total 168 148 95 55 34 500

0-2 3-4 4-5 6-10 11+

Total

Setting Five: A game promotion for a successful fast food restaurant chain puts two game pieces on large soft drink containers. An advertising campaign for the chain claims that 1-in-10 game pieces is a winner. Suppose that game pieces are randomly placed on these containers, that is, whether or not one game piece on a container is a winner does not influence whether the second piece is a winner. Using an = .05 level of significance, test whether the number of winning game pieces on a large soft drink container is binomial with a probability of any given game piece being a winner being 1-in-10 if a random sample of 1,000 such containers gave the following results:

Number of Winning Game Pieces on Container 0 1 2

839 155 6

Number of Such Containers