Thomas and Camille are international visiting scientists with research interests in horticultural and environmental issues in urban areas. They participate in various studies performed by Ville de Montréal. More specifically, they address issues related to plant diseases in city gardens, air and water quality, and food waste management. The viruses causing problems in strawberry plants are mainly spread by one insect, the strawberry aphid. Camille believes that as aphids feed on leaves, they transmit viruses that can cause a rapid decrease in plant growth. She decides to verify whether or not the number of strawberry aphids found on a plant could be linked to its growth. She therefore randomly chooses 5 strawberry plants at the same stage of development in a virus-infested garden. For each individual plant, she first collects all the aphids present on the plant and weighs them, and then weighs the entire plant to have a measure of plant growth. She obtains the following data. 8) Is Camille correct in thinking that when the number of aphids on a plant is larger, the growth of the plant is affected (i.e., its weight is smaller)? Apply the appropriate statistical method with a test of significance at α = 0.05.
Contingency Table
A contingency table can be defined as the visual representation of the relationship between two or more categorical variables that can be evaluated and registered. It is a categorical version of the scatterplot, which is used to investigate the linear relationship between two variables. A contingency table is indeed a type of frequency distribution table that displays two variables at the same time.
Binomial Distribution
Binomial is an algebraic expression of the sum or the difference of two terms. Before knowing about binomial distribution, we must know about the binomial theorem.
Thomas and Camille are international visiting scientists with research interests in horticultural and environmental issues in urban areas. They participate in various studies performed by Ville de Montréal. More specifically, they address issues related to plant diseases in city gardens, air and water quality, and food waste management.
The viruses causing problems in strawberry plants are mainly spread by one insect, the strawberry aphid. Camille believes that as aphids feed on leaves, they transmit viruses that can cause a rapid decrease in plant growth. She decides to verify whether or not the number of strawberry aphids found on a plant could be linked to its growth. She therefore randomly chooses 5 strawberry plants at the same stage of development in a virus-infested garden. For each individual plant, she first collects all the aphids present on the plant and weighs them, and then weighs the entire plant to have a measure of plant growth. She obtains the following data.
8) Is Camille correct in thinking that when the number of aphids on a plant is larger, the growth of the plant is affected (i.e., its weight is smaller)? Apply the appropriate statistical method with a test of significance at α = 0.05.
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