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The authors of a paper studied a random sample of 351 Twitter users. For each Twitter user in the sample, the tweets sent during a particular time period were analyzed and the Twitter user was classified into one of the following categories based on the type of messages they usually sent.
Category | Description |
---|---|
IS | Information sharing |
OC | Opinions and complaints |
RT | Random thoughts |
ME | Me now (what I am doing now) |
O | Other |
The accompanying table gives the observed counts for the five categories (approximate values read from a graph in the paper).
Twitter Type | IS | OC | RT | ME | O |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Observed count | 53 | 60 | 66 | 99 | 73 |
Carry out a hypothesis test to determine if there is convincing evidence that the proportions of Twitter users falling into each of the five categories are not all the same. Use a significance level of
α = 0.05.
(Hint: See Example 14.3.)
Let p1, p2, p3, p4, and p5 be the proportions of Twitter users falling into the five categories.
State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses.
H0: p1 =
p2 = p3 =
p4 = p5 = 0.5
Ha: H0 is not
true. H0: p1 =
p2 = p3 =
p4 = p5 = 351
Ha: H0 is not
true. H0:
p1 = p2 =
p3 = p4 =
p5 = 0.2
Ha: H0 is not
true. H0: p1 =
p2 = p3 =
p4 = p5 = 70
Ha: H0 is not
true. H0: p1 =
p2 = p3 =
p4 = p5 = 0.05
Ha: H0 is not
true.
Find the test statistic and P-value. (Use technology. Round your test statistic to three decimal places and your P-value to four decimal places.)
X2 = P-value =
State the conclusion in the problem context.
Do not reject H0. There is not convincing evidence to conclude that the proportions of Twitter users falling into the five categories are not all the same. Reject H0. There is not convincing evidence to conclude that the proportions of Twitter users falling into the five categories are not all the same. Reject H0. There is convincing evidence to conclude that the proportions of Twitter users falling into the five categories are not all the same. Do not reject H0. There is convincing evidence to conclude that the proportions of Twitter users falling into the five categories are not all the same.