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Museum management. Refer to the Museum Management and Curatorship (June 2010) worldwide survey of 30 leading museums of contemporary art. Recall that each museum manager was asked to provide the performance measure used most often for internal evaluation. A summary of the results is provided in the table and saved in the MUSEUM2 file. The data were analyzed using a chi-square test for a multinomial experiment. The results are shown in the MINITAB printout (bottom of the page).

a. Is there evidence to indicate that one performance measure is used more often than any of the others? Test using α = .10.

b. Find a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of museums worldwide that use total visitors as their performance measure. Interpret the result.

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QUESTION:

Museum management. Refer to the Museum Management and Curatorship (June 2010) worldwide survey of 30 leading museums of contemporary art. Recall that each museum manager was asked to provide the performance measure used most often for internal evaluation. A summary of the results is provided in the table and saved in the MUSEUM2 file. The data were analyzed using a chi-square test for a multinomial experiment. The results are shown in the MINITAB printout (bottom of the page).

a. Is there evidence to indicate that one performance measure is used more often than any of the others? Test using α = .10.

b. Find a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of museums worldwide that use total visitors as their performance measure. Interpret the result.

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(a) We have to test whether there is any evidence to indicate that one performance measure is used more often than any of others, using .

Null Hypothesis  One performance measure is not used more often than any of the others.

Alternative Hypothesis  One performance measure is used more often than any of the others.

Level of significance,

             Expected frequency = Total x equal probability

                                           

                         = 6

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