Chi-square tests worksheet with answers

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1.Easy
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A die is rolled 240 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 = 240k = 6
χ² =
2.Easy
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A die is rolled 300 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 = 300k = 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 = 802 × 3
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 “students, car”.

row total = 105column total = 65N = 168
E =
5.Hard
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A chi-square test of independence is carried out on a contingency table with 3 rows and 6 columns (not counting the totals). Using the table, find the critical value χ²crit at significance level α = 0.01.

α = 0.01
χ²crit =
6.Hard

A chi-square goodness-of-fit test checks whether counts in 7 categories follow a Poisson distribution whose mean is estimated from the same data. How many degrees of freedom df does the test have?

k = 7
df =

Answer key

  1. 1. χ² = 4
  2. 2. χ² = 6.44
  3. 3. χ² = 5.2
  4. 4. E = 40.63
  5. 5. χ²crit = 23.21
  6. 6. df = 5

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