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Chapter 26: Comparing Counts

Key Vocabulary:

! chi-square test for ! degrees of freedom

goodness of fit ! chi-square distribution
! chi-square statistic ! components of chi-square
! expected count ! cell counts
! observed count ! r x c table

Calculator Skills: ! sum ( )

! !2cdf (leftbound, rightbound, df)

! !2pdf (X, df)

! !2-Test

1. State the null and alternative hypotheses for a goodness of fit test.

2. What conditions must be met in order to use a goodness of fit test?

3. What is the chi-square statistic?

4. What is the difference between the notation X2 and !2?

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5. How many degrees of freedom does the chi-square distribution have?

6. As the chi-square statistic increases, what happens to the P-value?

7. In order to reject the null hypothesis, what will be true about the chi-square statistic?

8. Describe the domain of a chi-square distribution?

9. What is the shape of a chi-square distribution? What happens to the shape as the degrees of
freedom increases?

10. Explain the difference between a chi-square test for goodness-of-fit and a chi-square test of
homogeneity.

11. State the null and alternative hypotheses for comparing more than two proportions.

12. How do you calculate the expected count in any cell of a two-way table when the null
hypothesis is true?

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13. How many degrees of freedom does a chi-square test for a two-way table with r rows and c
columns have?

14. If you decide to reject the null hypothesis when performing a chi-square test of homogeneity,
it is necessary to follow up by examining the residuals of the components. Explain how to
standardize the residuals for the components of the chi-square test.

15. What would you look for when interpreting these standardized residuals?

16. State the null and alternative hypotheses for a chi-square test for independence.

17. Explain the difference between a chi-square test of homogeneity and a chi-square test for
independence (think about the hypotheses for each).

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Chapter 27: Inferences for Regression

Key Vocabulary:

! true regression line ! degrees of freedom

! standard error about the ! prediction interval
line

Calculator Skills: ! LinRegTTest

1. What is the equation for the idealized regression line? Label each part of the equation.

2. What is the equation for the least-squares regression line? Label each part of the equation.

3. What are the four assumptions and conditions that must be met in order to perform inference
for regression? Explain how to check each one.

4. What three aspects of the scatterplot affect the standard error of the regression slope?

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5. If there is no association between two variables, what should be the value of the slope of the
regression line?

6. When performing inference on the regression slope, what are the null and alternative
hypotheses?

7. How many degrees of freedom does the standardized extimated regression slope have?

8. What is the formula for constructing a confidence interval for the regression slope "?

9. How is this similar to the formula for constructing other confidence intervals?

10. If you want to test for no correlation between your variables x and y, what should be used for
the null hypothesis?

11. When using the LinRegTTest on the TI-83+, what does the symbol # represent?

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