a) What is the expected number of births in each season if there is no "seasonal effect" on Explain. b) Do we have some evidence to suggest that births are not uniformly distributed through year? Explain. Is this statistically significant? c) Find the Critical x² value for this problem. Use alpha value = 0.25 (you should know th degree of freedom by now)

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Problem 2: If there is no effect on human births, we would expect equal numbers of children to
be born in each season (winter, spring, summer, and fall). A student takes a census of her
statistics class from a major university and finds that of the 160 students in the class, 33 were
born in winter, 47 in spring, 43 in summer, and 37 in fall. She wonders if the excess in the
spring is an indication that births are not uniformly distributed throughout the year.
a) What is the expected number of births in each season if there is no "seasonal effect" on birth?
Explain.
b) Do we have some evidence to suggest that births are not uniformly distributed throughout the
year? Explain. Is his statistically significant?
c) Find the Critical x? value for this problem. Use alpha value = 0.25 (you should know the
degree of freedom by now).
Transcribed Image Text:Problem 2: If there is no effect on human births, we would expect equal numbers of children to be born in each season (winter, spring, summer, and fall). A student takes a census of her statistics class from a major university and finds that of the 160 students in the class, 33 were born in winter, 47 in spring, 43 in summer, and 37 in fall. She wonders if the excess in the spring is an indication that births are not uniformly distributed throughout the year. a) What is the expected number of births in each season if there is no "seasonal effect" on birth? Explain. b) Do we have some evidence to suggest that births are not uniformly distributed throughout the year? Explain. Is his statistically significant? c) Find the Critical x? value for this problem. Use alpha value = 0.25 (you should know the degree of freedom by now).
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