OCR Further Statistics AS 2020 November — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Statistics AS (Further Statistics AS)
Year2020
SessionNovember
TopicChi-squared distribution

5 At a cinema there are three film sessions each Saturday, "early", "middle" and "late". The numbers of the audience, in different age groups, at the three showings on a randomly chosen Saturday are given in Table 1. \begin{table}[h]
\multirow{2}{*}{Observed frequencies}Session
EarlyMiddleLate
\multirow{3}{*}{Age group}< 25242040
25 to 604210
> 60282210
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Table 1}
\end{table} The cinema manager carries out a test of whether there is any association between age group and session attended.
  1. Show that it is necessary to combine cells in order to carry out the test. It is decided to combine the second and third rows of the table. Some of the expected frequencies for the table with rows combined, and the corresponding contributions to the \(\chi ^ { 2 }\) test statistic, are shown in the following incomplete tables. \begin{table}[h]
    \multirow{2}{*}{Expected frequencies}Session
    EarlyMiddleLate
    \multirow{2}{*}{Age group}< 2529.423.1
    \(\geqslant 25\)26.620.9
    \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Table 2}
    \end{table} \begin{table}[h]
    \multirow{2}{*}{Contribution to \(\chi ^ { 2 }\)}Session
    EarlyMiddleLate
    \multirow{2}{*}{Age group}< 250.99180.4160
    \(\geqslant 25\)1.09620.4598
    \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Table 3}
    \end{table}
  2. In the Printed Answer Booklet, complete both tables.
  3. Carry out the test at the \(5 \%\) significance level.
  4. Use the figures in your completed Table 3 to comment on the numbers of the audience in different age groups.