(BQ) Part 2 book “Statistics for business and economics” has contents: Simple linear regression, multiple regression, time series analysis and forecasting, nonparametric methods, statistical methods for quality control, decision analysis on website, and other contents. | CHAPTER 12 Comparing Multiple Proportions, Test of Independence and Goodness of Fit CONTENTS TEST OF INDEPENDENCE STATISTICS IN PRACTICE: UNITED WAY GOODNESS OF FIT TEST Multinomial Probability Distribution Normal Probability Distribution TESTING THE EQUALITY OF POPULATION PROPORTIONS FOR THREE OR MORE POPULATIONS A Multiple Comparison Procedure Copyright 2014 Nelson Education Ltd. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Nelson Education reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. 508 Chapter 12 STATISTICS Comparing Multiple Proportions, Test of Independence and Goodness of Fit in PRACTICE UNITED WAY* ROCHESTER, NEW YORK United Way of Greater Rochester is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people in the seven counties it serves by meeting the community’s most important human care needs. The annual United Way/Red Cross fund-raising campaign funds hundreds of programs offered by more than 200 service providers. These providers meet a wide variety of human needs—physical, mental, and social—and serve people of all ages, backgrounds, and economic means. The United Way of Greater Rochester decided to conduct a survey to learn more about community perceptions of charities. Focus-group interviews were held with professional, service, and general worker groups to obtain preliminary information on perceptions. The information obtained was then used to help develop the questionnaire for the survey. The questionnaire was pretested, modified, and distributed to 440 individuals. A variety of descriptive statistics, including frequency distributions and crosstabulations, were provided from the data collected. An important part of the analysis involved the
