Exercise #2


In each presidential election, approximately 12% of voters cast their vote for an “alternative party”. Test whether votes are cast similarly across alternative parties. In this election, 6% voted for the independent party candidate, 2% the libertarian party candidate, 3% the Green party candidate and 1% other.

Choose the statistic you would use to test your hypothesis.

 

One-Sample Z Test
One-Sample t-Test
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test