Question

Some scientists believe alcoholism is linked to social isolation. One measure of social isolation is marital status. A study of 280 adults is conducted, and each participant is classified as not alcoholic, diagnosed alcoholic, or undiagnosed alcoholic, and also by marital status.
Diagnosed Alcoholic Undiagnosed Alcoholic Not Alcoholic

Married 21 37 58
Not Married 59 63 42

Is there significant evidence of an association? Run the appropriate test at the 5% level of significance.

1. Write out the appropriate null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis.
2. What is the appropriate test statistic that needs to be calculated?
3. Calculate and report the appropriate test statistic. To get full credit, you must show your work.
4. Decide to either fail to reject the null hypothesis or reject the null hypothesis, and describe the result and the statistical conclusion in an understandable way.

Answer 1

Answer:

1) H0: There is independence between the marital status and the diagnostic of alcoholic

H1: There is association between the marital status and the diagnostic of alcoholic

2) The statistic to check the hypothesis is given by:

$\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{(O_i -E_i)^2}{E_i}$

3) $\chi^2 = \frac{(21-33.143)^2}{33.143}+\frac{(37-41.429)^2}{41.429}+\frac{(58-41.429)^2}{41.429}+\frac{(59-46.857)^2}{46.857}+\frac{(63-58.571)^2}{58.571}+\frac{(42-58.571)^2}{58.571} =19.72$

4) $df=(rows-1)(cols-1)=(3-1)(2-1)=2$

And we can calculate the p value given by:

$p_v = P(\chi^2_{2} >19.72)=5.22x10^{-5}$

And we can find the p value using the following excel code:

"=1-CHISQ.DIST(19.72,2,TRUE)"

Since the p value is lower than the significance level so then we can reject the null hypothesis at 5% of significance, and we can conclude that we have association between the two variables analyzed.

Step-by-step explanation:

A chi-square goodness of fit test "determines if a sample data matches a population".

A chi-square test for independence "compares two variables in a contingency table to see if they are related. In a more general sense, it tests to see whether distributions of categorical variables differ from each another".

Assume the following dataset:

                    Diag. Alcoholic   Undiagnosed Alcoholic    Not alcoholic    Total

Married                     21                              37                            58                116

Not Married              59                             63                            42                164

Total                          80                             100                          100              280

Part 1

We need to conduct a chi square test in order to check the following hypothesis:

H0: There is independence between the marital status and the diagnostic of alcoholic

H1: There is association between the marital status and the diagnostic of alcoholic

The level os significance assumed for this case is $\alpha=0.05$

Part 2

The statistic to check the hypothesis is given by:

$\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{(O_i -E_i)^2}{E_i}$

Part 3

The table given represent the observed values, we just need to calculate the expected values with the following formula $E_i = \frac{total col * total row}{grand total}$

And the calculations are given by:

$E_{1} =\frac{80*116}{280}=33.143$

$E_{2} =\frac{100*116}{280}=41.429$

$E_{3} =\frac{100*116}{280}=41.429$

$E_{4} =\frac{80*164}{280}=46.857$

$E_{5} =\frac{100*164}{280}=58.571$

$E_{6} =\frac{100*164}{280}=58.571$

And the expected values are given by:

                    Diag. Alcoholic   Undiagnosed Alcoholic    Not alcoholic    Total

Married             33.143                       41.429                        41.429                116

Not Married     46.857                      58.571                        58.571                164

Total                   80                              100                             100                 280

And now we can calculate the statistic:

$\chi^2 = \frac{(21-33.143)^2}{33.143}+\frac{(37-41.429)^2}{41.429}+\frac{(58-41.429)^2}{41.429}+\frac{(59-46.857)^2}{46.857}+\frac{(63-58.571)^2}{58.571}+\frac{(42-58.571)^2}{58.571} =19.72$

Part 4

Now we can calculate the degrees of freedom for the statistic given by:

$df=(rows-1)(cols-1)=(3-1)(2-1)=2$

And we can calculate the p value given by:

$p_v = P(\chi^2_{2} >19.72)=5.22x10^{-5}$

And we can find the p value using the following excel code:

"=1-CHISQ.DIST(19.72,2,TRUE)"

Since the p value is lower than the significance level so then we can reject the null hypothesis at 5% of significance, and we can conclude that we have association between the two variables analyzed.