SOLUTION: What of the following will produce a large value for the chi-square statistic? there is a good fit between the sample data (observed values) and the null hypothesis the observed v

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Question 385979: What of the following will produce a large value for the chi-square statistic?
there is a good fit between the sample data (observed values) and the null hypothesis the observed values from the sample data are consistently larger than the expected values the observed values from the sample data are consistently smaller than the expected values the sample data (observed values) do not fit the null hypothesis

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What of the following will produce a large value for the chi-square statistic?
there is a good fit between the sample data (observed values) and the null hypothesis the observed values from the sample data are consistently larger than the expected values the observed values from the sample data are consistently smaller than the expected values the sample data (observed values) do not fit the null hypothesis
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The Chi-Square is based on the values of Observed values - Predicted values.
If thed Observed are consistently larger than the expected, Chi-Square
will be large.
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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