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Psychological Statistics 2 Chi Square
Psychological Statistics 2 Chi Square
BS Psychology 2B
Psychological Statistics 2
Problem: You work at a nut factory, and you are in charge of quality control. The nut factory produces
a nut mix that is supposed to be 50% peanuts, 30% cashews, and 20% almonds. To check that the nut
mix proportions are acceptable, you randomly sample 1000 nuts and find the following frequencies:
Peanuts 621, Cashew 189, and Almonds 190. Should you reject the null hypothesis that the nut mix has
the desired proportions of nuts?
Formula for Chi-Square x2:
where: x2 is the chi square statistics.
Σ is the summation operator
O is the Observed frequency
E is the Expected frequency
Computation:
Nuts Observed Expected 0-E (O - E)^2 (O-E)^2/E