In: Statistics and Probability
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported the percentage of traffic accidents occurring each day of the week. Assume that a sample of 420 accidents provided the following data.
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
66 | 50 | 52 | 47 | 56 | 69 | 80 |
(a) Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if the proportion of traffic accidents is the same for each day of the week. Use a 0.05 level of significance.
State the null and alternative hypotheses:
A. H0: Not all proportions are equal.
Ha: pSun ≠
pMon ≠ pTue ≠
pWed ≠ pThu ≠
pFri ≠ pSat ≠
1 |
7 |
B. H0: Not all proportions are equal.
Ha: pSun =
pMon = pTue =
pWed = pThu =
pFri = pSat =
1 |
7 |
C. H0: pSun ≠ pMon ≠ pTue ≠ pWed ≠ pThu ≠ pFri ≠ pSat ≠
1 |
7 |
Ha: All proportions are equal.
D. H0: pSun = pMon = pTue = pWed = pThu = pFri = pSat =
1 |
7 |
Ha: Not all proportions are equal.
Find the value of the test statistic. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
Find the p-value. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
State your conclusion:
A. Reject H0. We conclude that the proportion of traffic accidents is not the same for each day of the week.
B. Do not reject H0. We conclude that the proportion of traffic accidents is the same for each day of the week.
C. Do not reject H0. We conclude that the proportion of traffic accidents is not the same for each day of the week.
D. Reject H0. We conclude that the proportion of traffic accidents is the same for each day of the week.
(b) Compute the percentage of traffic accidents occurring on each day of the week. (Round your answers to two decimal places.)
Sunday _____%
Monday _____%
Tuesday _____%
Wednesday _____%
Thursday _____%
Friday _____%
Saturday _____%
What day has the highest percentage of traffic accidents?
a)since we expect that that proportion are equal in each of the day
option D is correct for hypothesis:
applying chi square goodness of fit test: |
relative | observed | Expected | residual | Chi square | |
girls | frequency(p) | Oi | Ei=total*p | R2i=(Oi-Ei)/√Ei | R2i=(Oi-Ei)2/Ei |
Sunday | 1/7 | 66 | 60.00 | 0.77 | 0.600 |
Monday | 1/7 | 50 | 60.00 | -1.29 | 1.667 |
Tuesday | 1/7 | 52 | 60.00 | -1.03 | 1.067 |
Wednesday | 1/7 | 47 | 60.00 | -1.68 | 2.817 |
Thursday | 1/7 | 56 | 60.00 | -0.52 | 0.267 |
Friday | 1/7 | 69 | 60.00 | 1.16 | 1.350 |
Saturday | 1/7 | 80 | 60.00 | 2.58 | 6.667 |
total | 1 | 420 | 420 | 14.4333 | |
test statistic X2 = | 14.433 | ||||
p value = | 0.0252 | from excel: chidist(14.433,6) |
since p value is less than significance level , we reject null hypothesis |
A. Reject H0. We conclude that the proportion of traffic accidents is not the same for each day of the week.
category | % |
Sunday | 15.71% |
Monday | 11.90% |
Tuesday | 12.38% |
Wednesday | 11.19% |
Thursday | 13.33% |
Friday | 16.43% |
Saturday | 19.05% |
staturday has the highest number of traffic accidents followed by Friday . |