A teacher is trying to assign grades so that she has the following distribution:
Grade | % of Class |
A | 15 |
B | 30 |
C | 40 |
D | 10 |
F | 5 |
This is what she actually has in her grade book:
Grade | # Students |
A | 20 |
B | 40 |
C | 35 |
D | 8 |
E | 8 |
At a significance level of 0.05, are these two distributions different? Include either χ^2 or the p-value to justify your answer.
Pearson chi square : Observed and Expected Counts
Category |
Observed |
Test |
Expected |
Contribution |
A |
20 |
0.15 |
16.65 |
0.67402 |
B |
40 |
0.30 |
33.30 |
1.34805 |
C |
35 |
0.40 |
44.40 |
1.99009 |
D |
8 |
0.10 |
11.10 |
0.86577 |
E |
8 |
0.05 |
5.55 |
1.08153 |
We compute chi square value as 5.95946 and associated p value .202.
Since the p value is more than the nominal .05, evidence is not enough to conclude that the two distributions are significantly different.
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