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Question

p>0.10 n a Midwestern city, the association between racial dfferences in the incidence of cardiac arrest and subsequent survival was studied in 6117 cases of non-traumatic, out of hospital cardiac arrest . During a 12-month period, less than 24 of 2910 survived an arrest to hospital discharge (24 of 2910), compared to 84 of 3207 Caucasians, Is there an and survival in cases of non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? association between race (African- Let a 0.05 Race African 6009 total 1 pts D Question 7 What is the test statistic used?

Explanation / Answer

Solution

Q7

Test statistic: ?2 = ?(i = 1 to r, j = 1 to c){(oij - eij)2/eij}

Q8

Test statistic value = 28.328

Q9

Critical value = 3.841

Q10

p-value = 1.02E – 07

Q11

There is evidence to suggest that there is association between race and survival rate.

DONE

Back-up Theory and Details of calculations

Back-up Theory

Suppose we have a contingency table consisting of r rows and c columns, i.e., (r x c) cells, each row representing a particular level of one attribute and each column representing a particular level of another attribute. Let oij be the observed frequency in the cell at ith row-jth column and eij be the corresponding expected frequency.

H0: The two attributes are independent.   vs   H1: H0 is false.

Test Statistic

?2 = ?(i = 1 to r, j = 1 to c){(oij - eij)2/eij}. [This can also be simplified as ?2 = ?(i = 1 to r, j = 1 to c)(o2ij/eij) – n, where n = total frequency = ?(i = 1 to r, j = 1 to c)(oij) which is also equal to ?(i = 1 to r, j = 1 to c)(eij).]

Under H0, ?2 is distributed as Chi-square distribution with degrees of freedom = (r - 1)(c - 1).

Under H0, eij = (oi. . o.j)/n where oi. = ?(j = 1 to c)(oij) = sum of all observed frequencies in the ith row and o.j = ?(i = 1 to r)(oij) = sum of all observed frequencies in the jth column.

Decision Criterion

Reject H0 if ?2cal > ?2(r - 1)(c - 1), ?. i.e. reject H0 if ?2cal > ?2tab (i.e., calculated value of ?2 is greater than the upper ?% point of Chi-square distribution with degrees of freedom = (r - 1)(c - 1), which can be read off from standard table).

Details of Excel Calculations

?2cal =

28.32729

p-value

?2crit =

3.841459

for DF =

OIJ (given)

Oi1

Oi2

Oi.

O1j

24

84

108

O2j

2886

3123

6009

O.j

2910

3207

6117

Eij

Ei1

Ei2

Total

E1j

51.37813

56.62187347

108

E2j

2858.622

3150.378127

6009

Total

2910

3207

6117

CHECK: respective row totals, column totals and grand total of

both Oij and Eij must be equal

(Oij - Eij)^2/Eij

1

2

1

14.58912

13.23802563

27.82715

2

0.262211

0.23792757

0.500138

14.85133

13.4759532

28.32729

DONE

?2cal =

28.32729

p-value

?2crit =

3.841459

for DF =

OIJ (given)

Oi1

Oi2

Oi.

O1j

24

84

108

O2j

2886

3123

6009

O.j

2910

3207

6117