The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics records information on each new baby born ...

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The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics records information on each new baby born, such as time and date of births, weight, and sex.  On bit of information available from these data is the day of the week on which each baby was born.  Under the proportional model, we would expect that babies should be born at the same frequency on all seven days of the week.  But is this true?  The following table lists the number of babies born on each day of the week in a random sample of 350 births. 

   

Day


Number of   Births

 

Sunday


33

 

Monday


41

 

Tuesday


63

 

Wednesday


63

 

Thursday


47

 

Friday


56

 

Saturday


47

Write a null and alternative hypothesis to test the claim that the proportion of births should be 1/7 for each day of the week.

Test this hypothesis giving the test statistic and p-value and conclusion about this test.  (You can use R to get the values).

    • 8 years ago
    Ho: The distribution is as per the expectation ...
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