Q.10 - The Practice of Statistics for AP

Question

No chi-square The principal in Exercise $9$ also asked the random sample of students to record whether they did all of the homework that was assigned on each of the five school days that week. Here are the data:

Explain carefully why it would not be appropriate to perform a chi-square goodness-of-fit test using these data. 

Step-by-Step Solution

Answer

From the given information, the variable of interest is the average number of students who completed their homework and can give quantitative values, and the chi-square goodness of the test is used on a categorical variable, with quantitative variables. so it would not be appropriate to perform a chi-square goodness-of-fit test using these data. 

Step 1: Given Information

It is given in the question that, 

Step 2: Explanation

The variable of interest is the average number of students who completed their homework and can give quantitative values, and the chi-square goodness of the test is used on a categorical variable, with quantitative variables. As a result, chi-square goodness of fit cannot be used in this case.