A Researcher Believes That a Variable Is Poisson Distributed Across $\alpha$

question 45

Multiple Choice

A researcher believes that a variable is Poisson distributed across six categories.To test this,the following random sample of observations is collected:
Using $\alpha$ = 0.10,the critical value of chi-square for the data is ___.

• A)9.236
• B)1.064
• C)7.779
• D)13.277
• E)12.89

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