4. The table below gives the number of US Senators, from each party, spending federal dollars in each of three spending classes. The table is set up to help you calculate x so there are blanks provided in addition to the data: a. Fill in the contingency tables for the Expected Frequencies (work to 2 decimal places): Less than 6 Billion Spending 6 to 11 Billion More than Party 11 Billion Republican 15- 22 Democrat 16 6T b. Calculate the differences between the observed frequencies and the expected frequencies and fill in above. c. Calculate x and the degrees of freedom. Ans. Ans. d. Use this information to do a Chi Squared test to determine the validity of the claim that federal spending is independent of political party at the a = .05 level. Use the worksheet o the following page.
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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