The types of browse favored by deer are shown in the following table. Using binoculars, volunteers observed the feeding habits of a random sample of 320 deer. Type of Browse Plant Composition in Study Area Observed Number of Deer Feeding on This Plant Sage brush 32% 98 Rabbit brush 38.7% 134 Salt brush 12% 38 Service berry 9.3% 27 Other 8% 23 A button hyperlink to the SALT program that reads: Use SALT. Use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that the natural distribution of browse fits the deer feeding pattern. (a) What is the level of significance? State the null and alternate hypotheses. H0: The distributions are the same. H1: The distributions are the same. H0: The distributions are different. H1: The distributions are different. H0: The distributions are the same. H1: The distributions are different. H0: The distributions are different. H1: The distributions are the same. (b) Find the value of the chi-square statistic for the sample. (Round the expected frequencies to at least three decimal places. Round the test statistic to three decimal places.) Are all the expected frequencies greater than 5? Yes No What sampling distribution will you use? uniform normal chi-square binomial Student's t What are the degrees of freedom? (c) Estimate the P-value of the sample test statistic. P-value > 0.100 0.050 < P-value < 0.100 0.025 < P-value < 0.050 0.010 < P-value < 0.025 0.005 < P-value < 0.010 P-value < 0.005
The types of browse favored by deer are shown in the following table. Using binoculars, volunteers observed the feeding habits of a random sample of 320 deer.
Type of Browse Plant Composition
in Study Area Observed Number of Deer
Feeding on This Plant
Sage brush 32% 98
Rabbit brush 38.7% 134
Salt brush 12% 38
Service berry 9.3% 27
Other 8% 23
A button hyperlink to the SALT program that reads: Use SALT.
Use a 5% level of significance to test the claim that the natural distribution of browse fits the deer feeding pattern.
(a) What is the level of significance?
State the null and alternate hypotheses.
H0: The distributions are the same.
H1: The distributions are the same.
H0: The distributions are different.
H1: The distributions are different.
H0: The distributions are the same.
H1: The distributions are different.
H0: The distributions are different.
H1: The distributions are the same.
(b) Find the value of the chi-square statistic for the sample. (Round the expected frequencies to at least three decimal places. Round the test statistic to three decimal places.)
Are all the expected frequencies greater than 5?
Yes
No
What sampling distribution will you use?
uniform
normal
chi-square
binomial
Student's t
What are the degrees of freedom?
(c) Estimate the P-value of the sample test statistic.
P-value > 0.100
0.050 < P-value < 0.100
0.025 < P-value < 0.050
0.010 < P-value < 0.025
0.005 < P-value < 0.010
P-value < 0.005
(d) Based on your answers in parts (a) to (c), will you reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis that the population fits the specified distribution of categories?
Since the P-value > ?, we fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Since the P-value > ?, we reject the null hypothesis.
Since the P-value ≤ ?, we reject the null hypothesis.
Since the P-value ≤ ?, we fail to reject the null hypothesis.
(e) Interpret your conclusion in the context of the application.
At the 5% level of significance, the evidence is sufficient to conclude that the natural distribution of browse does not fit the feeding pattern.
At the 5% level of significance, the evidence is insufficient to conclude that the natural distribution of browse does not fit the feeding pattern.
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