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  <name>The Chi-Square Distribution: Practice 1</name>
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  <md:created>2008/06/22 20:16:56 GMT-5</md:created>
  <md:revised>2008/08/15 16:33:10.663 GMT-5</md:revised>
  <md:authorlist>
      <md:author id="billowsky">
      <md:firstname>Barbara</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Illowsky</md:surname>
      <md:email>illowskybarbara@deanza.edu</md:email>
    </md:author>
      <md:author id="sdean">
      <md:firstname>Susan</md:firstname>
      
      <md:surname>Dean</md:surname>
      <md:email>deansusan@deanza.edu</md:email>
    </md:author>
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    <md:maintainer id="cnxorg">
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      <md:surname>Connexions</md:surname>
      <md:email>cnx@cnx.org</md:email>
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  <md:keywordlist>
    <md:keyword>elementary</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>statistics</md:keyword>
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  <md:abstract>This module provides a practice on Chi-Square Distribution as a part of Collaborative Statistics collection (col10522) by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean.</md:abstract>
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  <content>
    <section id="element-838"><name>Student Learning Outcomes</name>
<list id="list-2356124" type="bulleted"><item>

The student will explore the properties of goodness-of-fit test data.</item>


</list></section><section id="element-902"><name>Given</name>
<para id="element-666">The following data are real.
The cumulative number of AIDS cases reported for Santa Clara County through December 31, 2003, is broken down by ethnicity as follows:
</para><table id="element-974">
<?table-summary This table shows the ethnicity in the first column and the number of cases in the second column. There are 6 rows.?>
<tgroup cols="2"><colspec colnum="1" colname="c1"/>
        <colspec colnum="2" colname="c2"/>
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>
              Ethnicity
            </entry>
            <entry>
              Number of Cases
            </entry>
          </row>
</thead>
<tfoot>
          <row>
            <entry/>
            <entry>Total = 3489</entry>
          </row>
</tfoot>
<tbody>  
        <row>
            <entry>White</entry>
            <entry>2032</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>Hispanic</entry>
            <entry>897</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>African-American</entry>
            <entry>372</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>Asian, Pacific Islander</entry>
            <entry>168</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>Native American</entry>
            <entry>20</entry>
          </row>

        </tbody>
      


</tgroup>
</table>


<para id="element-726">The percentage of each ethnic group in Santa Clara County is as follows:</para>

<table id="element-174">
<?table-summary This is a partially filled table with ethnicity in the first column, percentage of total county population in the second column, and expected number in the third column. Only the first row of the third column is filled up.?>
<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colnum="1" colname="header_c1"/>
        <colspec colnum="2" colname="c2"/>
        <colspec colnum="3" colname="c3"/>
        <thead>
          <row>
            <entry>
              Ethnicity
            </entry>
            <entry>
              Percentage of total county population
            </entry>
            <entry>
              Number
              expected (round to 2 decimal places)
            </entry>
          </row>
</thead>
<tfoot>
          <row>
            <entry/>
            <entry> Total = 100%</entry>
            <entry/>
          </row>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
          <row>
            <entry>White</entry>
            <entry>47.79%</entry>
            <entry>1667.39</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>Hispanic</entry>
            <entry>24.15%</entry>
            <entry/>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>African-American</entry>
            <entry>3.55%</entry>
            <entry/>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>Asian, Pacific Islander</entry>
            <entry>24.21%</entry>
            <entry/>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>Native American</entry>
            <entry>0.29%</entry>
            <entry/>
          </row>

        </tbody>
      


</tgroup>
</table></section><section id="element-8"><name>Expected Results</name>
<para id="element-308">If the ethnicity of AIDS victims followed the ethnicity of the total county population, fill in the expected number of cases per ethnic group.

  
  </para>
</section><section id="element-782"><name>Goodness-of-Fit Test</name>
<para id="element-743">Perform a goodness-of-fit test to determine whether the make-up of AIDS cases follows the ethnicity of the general population of Santa Clara County.
</para><exercise id="element-806"><problem>
  <para id="element-80"><m:math>
        <m:semantics>
          <m:mrow>
            <m:mstyle fontsize="12pt">
              <m:mrow>
                <m:mrow>
                  <m:msub>
                    <m:mi>H</m:mi>
                    <m:mstyle fontsize="8pt">
                      <m:mrow>
                        <m:mi>o</m:mi>
                      </m:mrow>
                    </m:mstyle>
                  </m:msub>
                  <m:mi>:</m:mi>
                </m:mrow>
              </m:mrow>
            </m:mstyle>
            <m:mrow/>
          </m:mrow>
          <m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{H rSub { size 8{O} } :μ rSub { size 8{W} } =μ rSub { size 8{ ital "NW"} } } {}</m:annotation>
        </m:semantics>
      </m:math>
  </para>
</problem>
</exercise><exercise id="element-694"><problem>
  <para id="element-117"><m:math>
        <m:semantics>
          <m:mrow>
            <m:mstyle fontsize="12pt">
              <m:mrow>
                <m:mrow>
                  <m:msub>
                    <m:mi>H</m:mi>
                    <m:mstyle fontsize="8pt">
                      <m:mrow>
                        <m:mi>a</m:mi>
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                  <m:mi>:</m:mi>
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          <m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{H rSub { size 8{a} } :μ rSub { size 8{W} }  &lt;&gt; μ rSub { size 8{ ital "NW"} } } {}</m:annotation>
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  </para>
</problem>
</exercise><exercise id="element-502"><problem>
  <para id="element-56">Is this a right-tailed, left-tailed, or two-tailed test? 
  </para>
</problem>
</exercise><exercise id="element-619"><problem>
  <para id="element-422">degrees of freedom = </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-139">
    degrees of freedom = 4
  </para>
</solution>
</exercise><exercise id="element-575"><problem>
  <para id="element-840"><m:math><m:semantics><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontsize="12pt"><m:mrow><m:mstyle fontstyle="italic"><m:mrow><m:msup><m:mtext>Chi</m:mtext><m:mstyle fontsize="8pt"><m:mrow><m:mn>2</m:mn></m:mrow></m:mstyle></m:msup></m:mrow></m:mstyle></m:mrow></m:mstyle><m:mrow/></m:mrow><m:annotation encoding="StarMath 5.0"> size 12{ ital "Chi" rSup { size 8{2} } } {}</m:annotation></m:semantics></m:math> test statistic = </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-448">951.69</para>
</solution>
</exercise><exercise id="element-64"><problem>
  <para id="element-836">p-value = </para>
</problem>

<solution>
  <para id="element-629">
0
  </para>
</solution>
</exercise><exercise id="element-86"><problem>
  <para id="element-947">Graph the situation. Label and scale the horizontal axis. Mark the mean and test statistic. Shade in the region corresponding to the p-value.


  
  </para><para id="element-476"><media type="image/png" src="9.png">

<param name="print-width" value="4in"/>
</media></para><para id="element-996">Let <m:math><m:mi>α</m:mi>
<m:mo>=</m:mo>
<m:mn>0.05</m:mn>
</m:math></para><para id="element-369">Decision:</para><para id="element-116">Reason for the Decision:</para><para id="element-355">Conclusion (write out in complete sentences):</para>
</problem>
</exercise></section><section id="element-961"><name>Discussion Question</name><exercise id="exerciseoneserd">
<problem>
<para id="element-493">
Does it appear that the pattern of AIDS cases in Santa Clara County corresponds to the distribution of ethnic groups in this county? Why or why not?
</para></problem></exercise></section>   
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