CHI SQUARED

PROJECT
ARLO CHURCHILL

RESEARCH QUESTION
Is there a difference in GPA concerning grade
level?

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS NUll HYPOTHESIS

Grade Level Affects One’s GPA

Grade Level Has No Effect On One’s GPA

OBSERVED & EXPECTED

This table represents the GPA of each student in each grade

level

This table represents the expected GPA of each student in each grade level,
this is done by using the totals from the observed table

CHI SQUARED

I calculated this by using the observed and expected data set. I then found the
final chi squared, once I did that I then had to find the degrees of freedom to
calculate the critical value
 Discussion +
Methods
Observed and expected
The observed chart was created by collecting all the data and
adding it up to create the totals

The expected chart was created by using the totals and the spreadsheet function “=
($xy/$x$y)*x$y”
(replace x and y with row)

Chi Squared
I first found the Chi-squared for each sub-group using the
spreadsheet function “ =((xy-xy)^2)/xy”. I then found the final Chi-
squared by adding up all the subgroups.

Degrees of Freedom + Critical Value

To find the degree of freedom I counted the amount of data sets used and used the
spreadsheet function “=(x-1)*(x-1)”
(replace x with your amount of data sets)
Then compare this with the critical value chart to find your critical value

Conclusion

“Is there a difference in GPA concerning grade level?”

The degree of freedom is 16 meaning the critical value is
26.6, and the total chi squared was 10.7. if one looks at
the total chi-squared one will see that it is not over or
near the critical value. This means that there is not
enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis. In
conclusion, with the dataset taken grade level does not
affect one's GPA