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UCLA conducted a survey of more than 263,000 college freshmen from 385 colleges in fall 2005. The results of students' expected majors by gender were reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education (2/2/2006). Suppose a survey of 5,000 graduating females and 5,000 graduating males was done as a follow-up last year to determine what their actual majors were. The results for females are shown in the table below. The second column in the table does not add to 100% because of rounding.
Conduct a goodness-of-fit test to determine if the actual college majors of graduating females fit the distribution of their expected majors. (Use a significance level of 0.05.)
Conduct a goodness-of-fit test to determine if the actual college majors of graduating females fit the distribution of their expected majors. (Use a significance level of 0.05.)
Major | Women - Expected Major | Women - Actual Major |
---|---|---|
Art & Humanities | 14.0% | 670 |
Biological Sciences | 8.4% | 410 |
Business | 13.1% | 685 |
Education | 13.0% | 650 |
Engineering | 2.6% | 145 |
Physical Sciences | 2.6% | 125 |
Professional | 18.9% | 975 |
Social Sciences | 13.0% | 605 |
Technical | 0.4% | 15 |
Other | 5.8% | 300 |
Undecided | 8.0% | 420 |
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Part (a)
State the null hypothesis.The actual college majors of graduating females and their expected majors are independentevents. The distributions of the actual college majors of graduating females and their expected majors are the same.The actual college majors of graduating females and their expected majors are dependent events.The actual college majors of graduating females fit the distribution of their expected majors.The actual college majors of graduating females do not fit the distribution of their expected majors. -
Part (b)
State the alternative hypothesis.The actual college majors of graduating females and their expected majors are independent events.The actual college majors of graduating females and their expected majors are dependent events.The actual college majors of graduating females do not fit the distribution of their expected majors.The distributions of the actual college majors of graduating females and their expected majors are not the same.The actual college majors of graduating females fit the distribution of their expected majors. -
Part (c)
What are the degrees of freedom? (Enter an exact number as an integer, fraction, or decimal.) -
Part (d)
State the distribution to use for the test.t11t10?211?210 -
Part (e)
What is the test statistic? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) -
Part (f)
What is the p-value? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
Explain what the p-value means for this problem.If H0 is true, then there is a chance equal to the p-value that the value of the test statistic will be equal to or greater than the calculated value.If H0
is true, then there is a chance equal to the p-value that the value of the test statistic will be equal to or less than the calculated value. If H0
is false, then there is a chance equal to the p-value that the value of the test statistic will be equal to or less than the calculated value.If H0 is false, then there is a chance equal to the p-value that the value of the test statistic will be equal to or greater than the calculated value. -
Part (g)
Sketch a picture of this situation. Label and scale the horizontal axis, and shade the region(s) corresponding to the p-value. -
Part (h)
Indicate the correct decision ("reject" or "do not reject" the null hypothesis), the reason for it, and write the appropriate conclusion.(i) Alpha (Enter an exact number as an integer, fraction, or decimal.)
? =
(ii) Decision:reject the null hypothesisdo not reject the null hypothesis
(iii) Reason for decision:Since ? > p-value, we reject the null hypothesis.Since ? < p-value, we reject the null hypothesis. Since ? > p-value, we do not reject the null hypothesis.Since ? < p-value, we do not reject the null hypothesis.
(iv) Conclusion:There is sufficient evidence to warrant a rejection of the claim that the distribution of actual college majors of graduating females fit the distribution of their expected majors.There is not sufficient evidence to warrant a rejection of the claim that the distribution of actual college majors of graduating females fit the distribution of their expected majors.
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