The hospital wants to know if their budget is sufficient by checking whether the above frequencies fit the data from their records. Analyze the problem using chi-square test at 0.05 significance level.

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Section12.3: Conditional Probability; Independent Events; Bayes' Theorem
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A Hospital allocates much of the budget in preparation for the top two seasonal diseases in the locality. Based on their records the frequencies of seasonal disease occurring in the locality are given in the following table:

DISEASE A.        25%

DISEASE B.        50%

OTHERS.             25%

Of 100 current patients in the hospital, 36 suffered with the disease A, 47 suffer with Disease B, and 17 suffer with other seasonal diseases. The hospital wants to know if their budget is sufficient by checking whether the above frequencies fit the data from their records.

Analyze the problem using chi-square test at 0.05 significance level.

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