A medical journal reported the following frequencies of deaths due to cardiac arrest for each day of the week
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A medical journal reported the following frequencies of deaths due to cardiac arrest for each day of the week

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A medical journal reported the following frequencies of deaths due to cardiac arrest for each day of the week:

Cardiac Death by Day of the Week

Day

 

Monday

40

Tuesday

17

Wednesday

16

Thursday

29

Friday

15

Saturday

20

Sunday

17

We want to determine whether the number of deaths is uniform over the week.

a. Formulate the null and alternative hypotheses.

b. Compute the test statistic.

c. Using the p-value approach at 95% confidence, test for the uniformity of death over the week.

d. Using the critical value approach at 95% confidence, perform the test for uniformity.

Hint
StatisticsThe p-value approach is used to determine the likelihood or unlikelihood by ascertaining the probability of observing a riskier test statistic that is in the path of the alternative hypothesis than the one that is observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true....

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