S.IR.2.1
Develop and critique arguments for practical implications based on statistical significance.
Example Problems
Kai wondered whether the days of the week of vet appointments at his clinic had an even distribution from Monday through Friday, so he took a random sample of 400 appointments and recorded their days of the week. Here are his results:
He wants to use these results to carry out a χ² goodness-of-fit test to determine if the distribution of days of the week of the appointments disagrees with an even distribution.
What is the value of the test statistic for Kai's test?
| Day | Appointments |
|---|---|
| Monday | 88 |
| Tuesday | 98 |
| Wednesday | 74 |
| Thursday | 90 |
| Friday | 50 |
He wants to use these results to carry out a χ² goodness-of-fit test to determine if the distribution of days of the week of the appointments disagrees with an even distribution.
What is the value of the test statistic for Kai's test?
Nora noted that in the previous year, of visits at the clinic where she works were general checkups, were follow-up visits, and were urgent visits. She wondered if visit types this year still followed this distribution, so she took a random sample of visits and recorded their types. Here are her results:
She wants to use these results to carry out a goodness-of-fit test to determine if the distribution of visit types this year differs from last year.
What is the value of the test statistic for Nora's test?
| Visit type | Checkup | Follow-up | Urgent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | 68 | 50 | 42 |
She wants to use these results to carry out a goodness-of-fit test to determine if the distribution of visit types this year differs from last year.
What is the value of the test statistic for Nora's test?
Omar wondered whether the booking methods for appointments at his clinic had an even distribution among phone, website, app, and in-person, so he took a random sample of 240 appointments and recorded the booking method. Here are his results:
He wants to use these results to carry out a goodness-of-fit test to determine if the distribution of booking methods of the appointments disagrees with an even distribution.
What is the value of the test statistic for Omar's test?
| Booking method | Phone | Website | App | In person |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appointments | 70 | 61 | 62 | 47 |
He wants to use these results to carry out a goodness-of-fit test to determine if the distribution of booking methods of the appointments disagrees with an even distribution.
What is the value of the test statistic for Omar's test?

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