Question

The degrees of freedom for a chi-square goodness-of-fit test when there are 6 categories and a sample of size 1200 is ______.

O 1205
O 6
O 1199
O 5

Answer 1

`5`

Explanation:

Recall that the degrees of freedom for a chi-square goodness-of-fit test is defined as number of categories minus 1.

Since there are 6 categories, so the degrees of freedom is:

`6-1=5`