Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2004/o/o1/iii/solution

There are six pooled classes, one normalization constraint, and one fitted Poisson distribution parameter. Thus the reference degrees of freedom are . Under the null model the Pearson statistic has approximately the Chi-squared distribution with four degrees of freedom. Its supplied 5% upper critical value is .
Because , do not reject the Poisson count distribution at the 5% level. This is consistency with that distribution, not proof that it is exactly true. A test of the marginal count frequencies also does not by itself verify independence of successive time windows.

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