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    Chi square test and hypothesis testing

    A study regarding the relationship between age and the amount of pressure sales personnel feel in relation to their jobs revealed the following sample information. At the .01 significance level, is there a relationship between job pressure and age? See attachment

    Chi square test of independence, Confidence Interval

    Problem 23: In one part of a test developed by a psychologist, the test subject is asked to form a word by unscrambling the letters "ciiatttsss". Given below are times (in seconds) required by 15 randomly selected persons to unscramble the letters. Construct a 95% confidence interval for standard deviation. Assume the population

    Working with the Chi-Square Procedure.

    Suppose that you want to decide whether the distribution of primary heating fuel of occupied housing units built after 1974 differs from that of all occupied housing units. To help you decide, you take a random sample of n housing units built after 1974 and obtain a frequency distribution of their primary heating fuel. The p

    Myocardial Infarction Status

    Given the following 2x2 table: Myocardial Infarction Status Yes No OC User 683 2537 Non-OC user 1498 8747 Calculate the expected value for an OC user and no myocardial infarction. The TA said "2537", which may be correct, but I think some kind of chi-square goodness of fit or a similar test is needed to se

    Hypothesis test using ANOVA, Chi-square

    8.To examine the effect of pets in stressful situations researchers recruited 45 women who said they were dog lovers. Fifteen of the subjects were randomly assigned to each of the 3 groups to do a stressful task alone with a good friend present, or with their dog present. (The stressful task was to count backwards by 13s or 17s)

    The alternatives to a Chi squared test.

    Is there an alternative test to the chi squared test? What if my results give an expected frequency below 5, which stats book states that these should be treated with caution? Is there a more appropriate stat test which would be more accurate in working out the significance of the results?