Carry out the hypothesis test and state your conclusion in words. Note that you
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Carry out the hypothesis test and state your conclusion in words. Note that you can reject the null hypothesis of no change if the calculated 2 value is > 9.4877
American municipalities structure their local govermments in one of the folloming ways. (a) Mayor-Council - Elected council or board serves as the legislative body. The chief elected official is the head of government, with signiicant administrative authority, generally elected separately from the council. b) Council-Manager Elected council or board and chief elected oficial (e.g., mayor) are responsible for making policy with advice of the chief appointed official. A professional administrator appointed by the c) Commission Members of a board of elected conmissioners serve as heads of specific departments and (d) Town Meeting - Qualified voters convene to make basic policy and to choose a board of selectmen. The e) Representative Town Meeting-Voters select citizens to represent them at the town meeting. All Every five years or so the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) conducts its "Form of board or council has full responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the government collectively sit as the legislative body of the government selectmen and elected oicers carry out the policies established by the govemment. citizens may attend and participate in debate, but only representatives may vote Government surveys. The last time the ICMA conducted this survey they found the distribution to be as follows Form of Government 42 49 Council-Manager Town Meeting Representative Ton Meeting 1 When the current survey responses were t abulated, the observed frequencies were as follows: Form of Government 1650 2950 50 300 50 Town Meeting Representative Town MeetingExplanation / Answer
Ans:
Observed frequency(O) and relative frquency:
Expected frequency(E):
Test statistic:
Calculated Chi square score=233.47
As,calculated chi square test statistic>9.4877,Reject null hypothesis Ho(i.e. there is no change is distribution of form of govenment.)
Form of government frequency(fi) Relative frequency(fi/5000) Mayor-council 1650 0.33 Council manager 2950 0.59 Commission 50 0.01 Town meeting 300 0.06 Representative town meeting 50 0.01 Total 5000 1