In: Statistics and Probability
A psychologist would like to examine voters’ preferences for the different political parties in Europe. Calculate the Chi-Square by hand and using SPSS using the data in the table below: Follow the 11 steps suggested by Andy Field. Political Party Affiliation Democratic party Republican party Communist party Socialist Party 29 32 19 25
Help please!
The hypothesis being tested is:
H0: p1 = p2 = p3 = p4
Ha: There are voters’ preferences for the different political parties in Europe
observed | expected | O - E | (O - E)² / E |
29 | 26.250 | 2.750 | 0.288 |
32 | 26.250 | 5.750 | 1.260 |
19 | 26.250 | -7.250 | 2.002 |
25 | 26.250 | -1.250 | 0.060 |
105 | 105.000 | 0.000 | 3.610 |
3.61 | chi-square | ||
3 | df | ||
.3068 | p-value |
The p-value is 0.3068.
Since the p-value (0.3068) is greater than the significance level (0.05), we cannot reject the null hypothesis.
Therefore, we cannot conclude that there are voters’ preferences for the different political parties in Europe.
The SPSS output is: