One Proportion Z-Tests in SPSS

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One Proportion Z-Tests in SPSS STAT 314

A certain soft drink bottler claims that less than 20% of its customers drink another brand of soft drink
on a regular basis. A random sample of 100 customers yielded 18 who did in fact drink another brand of
soft drink on a regular basis. Do these sample results support the bottler’s claim? (Use a level of
significance of 0.05.)

1. Enter the category values (Brand of Drink: 1=other brand, 2=same brand) into one variable and
the observed counts (other brand=18, same brand=82) into another variable (see left figure,
below). Then weight the category values variable by the observed counts variable (see two right
figures, below).

2. Select Analyze  Nonparametric Tests  Chi-Square… (see left figure, below).

3. Select “Brand of Drink” as the test variable and enter the values for the null hypothesis
proportions in numerical order by category value [i.e., P(other brand) = 0.20, then P(same brand)
= 0.80] (see right figure, below).
4. Your output should look like this.

5. You should use the output information in the following manner to answer the question.

Step 0: Check Assumptions


n! 0 = 100 ( 0.20 ) = 20 " 10 and n (1 ! " 0 ) = 100 ( 0.80 ) = 80 # 10
Step 1: Hypotheses
H 0 : ! = 20% H 0 : ! = 0.20
"
H a : ! < 20% H a : ! < 0.20
Step 2: Significance Level
α = 0.05
Step 3: Rejection Region
Reject the null hypothesis if p-value ≤ 0.05.
Step 4: Test Statistic
Z = Chi - Square = 0.2500 = –0.5000
(Z has the same sign as the Residual for “other brand”)
1 1
p-value = ( Asymp. Sig.) = ( 0.6171) = 0.30855 (one-tailed test p-value)
2 2
Step 5: Conclusion
Since p-value = 0.30855 > 0.05 = α, we fail to reject the null hypothesis.
Step 6: State conclusion in words
At the α = 0.05 level of significance, there is not enough evidence to
conclude that less than 20% of the customers drink another brand. Thus
the results do not support the bottlerʼs claim.

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