Chi-square tests worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
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A die is rolled 180 times to test whether it is fair. The counts of each face are shown. Compute the chi-square goodness-of-fit statistic χ² for H₀: each face has probability 1/6.

n = 180k = 6
χ² =
2.Easy
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A die is rolled 120 times to test whether it is fair. The counts of each face are shown. Compute the chi-square goodness-of-fit statistic χ² for H₀: each face has probability 1/6.

n = 120k = 6
χ² =
3.Medium
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The contingency table shows observed counts. Compute the chi-square statistic χ² for the test of independence between the row and column variables. Do not use a continuity correction.

N = 1402 × 2
χ² =
4.Medium
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The contingency table shows observed counts. For a chi-square test of independence, find the expected count E for the cell “urban, medium”.

row total = 107column total = 44N = 181
E =
5.Hard

A chi-square goodness-of-fit test checks whether counts in 6 categories follow a Poisson distribution whose mean is estimated from the same data. How many degrees of freedom df does the test have?

k = 6
df =
6.Hard
dfα = 0.05α = 0.0113.8416.63525.9919.21037.81511.34549.48813.277511.07015.086612.59216.812714.06718.475815.50720.090916.91921.6661018.30723.209

A chi-square goodness-of-fit test compares observed counts in 4 categories with fully specified expected proportions (no parameters are estimated from the data). Using the table, find the critical value χ²crit at significance level α = 0.05.

α = 0.05
χ²crit =

Answer key

  1. 1. χ² = 6.733
  2. 2. χ² = 10.7
  3. 3. χ² = 0.1667
  4. 4. E = 26.01
  5. 5. df = 4
  6. 6. χ²crit = 7.815

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