TABLE 12-3 A Computer Used by a 24-Hour Banking Service Is Supposed

question 64

Multiple Choice

TABLE 12-3
A computer used by a 24-hour banking service is supposed to randomly assign each transaction to one of 5 memory locations. A check at the end of a day's transactions gave the counts shown in the table to each of the 5 memory locations, along with the number of reported errors.
The bank manager wanted to test whether the proportion of errors in transactions assigned to each of the 5 memory locations differ.
-Referring to Table 12-3, the calculated value of the test statistic is

• A) -0.1777
• B) -0.0185
• C) 1.4999
• D) 1.5190

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Definitions:

Cognitive Economy

A principle in cognitive psychology that suggests humans strive to simplify cognitive processes and structures to minimize effort.

Frequency of Association

A concept in psychology referring to how often two ideas, words, or concepts are linked together in a person's memory, affecting the ease of recall or recognition.

Encoding Specificity

The principle that recall is more effective if the context at the time of encoding matches the context at the time of retrieval.

Cognitive Economy

A principle in cognitive psychology that suggests the brain strives to simplify information processing by using the most efficient and simplest ways to understand and process information.