12) The personnel director for a small firm thinks that employees may be more likely to use sick days on Monday and Friday resulting in three-day weeks. a) What is the appropriate null and alternate hypothesis to determine if sick day absences depend on day of the week? b) The personnel director obtains sick day data for the past year and summarizes the number of absences by day of the week in the table below. Use JMP software to test the hypothesis of part a) c) Using alpha = 0.05, draw a conclusion for the hypothesis test and state the conclusion in the
12) The personnel director for a small firm thinks that employees may be more likely to use sick days on Monday and Friday resulting in three-day weeks. a) What is the appropriate null and alternate hypothesis to determine if sick day absences depend on day of the week? b) The personnel director obtains sick day data for the past year and summarizes the number of absences by day of the week in the table below. Use JMP software to test the hypothesis of part a) c) Using alpha = 0.05, draw a conclusion for the hypothesis test and state the conclusion in the
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12) The personnel director for a small firm thinks that employees may be more likely to use sick days on Monday and Friday resulting in three-day weeks.
a) What is the appropriate null and alternate hypothesis to determine if sick day absences depend on day of the week?
b) The personnel director obtains sick day data for the past year and summarizes the number of absences by day of the week in the table below. Use JMP software to test the hypothesis of part a)
c) Using alpha = 0.05, draw a conclusion for the hypothesis test and state the conclusion in the context of the problem.
Day of Week | Absences |
Monday | 126 |
Tuesday | 74 |
Wednesday | 91 |
Thursday | 82 |
Friday | 115 |
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