In: Statistics and Probability
The owner of a car wash wants to see if the arrival rate of cars
follows a Poisson distribution. In order to test the assumption of
a Poisson distribution, a random sample of 150 ten-minute intervals
was taken. You are given the following observed
frequencies:
| Number of Cars Arriving in a 10-Minute Interval |
Frequency |
| 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 23 |
| 4 | 30 |
| 5 | 24 |
| 6 | 20 |
| 7 | 13 |
| 8 | 8 |
| 9 or more | 4 |
| 150 |
The calculated value for the test statistic equals