Business Statistics

Chapter 13 | Hypothesis Testing for Categorical Data (Chi-Square Test) 443

13.4.1  Using Minitab for Hypothesis Testing with c

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Statistic for Test of

Independence

The rst step is to select Stat from the menu bar. A pull-down menu will appear on the screen. Select

Table from the menu bar. Another pull-down menu will appear on the screen. Select c

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Chi-Square

Test (Table in Worksheet) from this pull-down menu.

The Chi-Square Test (Table in Worksheet) dialog box will appear on the screen (Figure 13.7).

By using Select, place samples in Columns containing the table (Figure 13.7). Click OK, Minitab

will calculate the c

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and p value for the test ...