A book claims that more hockey players are born in January through March than in October through December. The following data show the number of players selected in a draft of new players for a hockey
league according to their birth month. Is there evidence to suggest that hockey players' birthdates are not uniformly distributed throughout the year? Use the level of significance a = 0.05.
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What are the null hypothesis and alternative hypotheses?
OA. H₂: The distribution of hockey players' birth months is uniformly distributed.
H,: More hockey players are born in the first half of the year than the second half.
OB. H: The distribution of hockey players' birth months is uniformly distributed.
H,: More hockey players are born in January-March than October-December.
OC. H: The distribution of hockey players' birth months is not uniformly distributed
H,: The distribution of hockey players' birth months is uniformly distributed.
D. H.: The distribution of hockey players' birth months is uniformly distributed.
H,: The distribution of hockey players' birth months is not uniformly distributed.
Compute the expected counts for each birth month. The total number of hockey players is 188.
Expected Count
Birth Month
January-March
April-June
July-September
October-December
Observed Count
66
59
34
29
(Round to two decimal places as needed.)