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Phoniex University
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Highway Accidents: Poisson Distribution A civil engineer has been studying the frequency of vehicle accidents on a certain stretch of interstate highway. Longterm history indicates that there has been an average of 1.72 accidents per day on this section of the interstate. Let r be a random variable that represents number of accidents per day. Let O represent the number of observed accidents per day based on local highway patrol reports. A random sample of 90 days gave the following information.
|
r |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 or more |
|
O |
22 |
21 |
15 |
17 |
15 |
(a) The civil engineer wants to use a Poisson distribution to represent the probability of r, the number of accidents per day. The Poisson distribution is
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where λ = 1.72 is the average number of accidents per day. Compute P(r) for r = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 or more.
b) Compute the expected number of accidents E = 90P(r) for r = 0, 1, 2, 3,and 4 or more.
(c) Compute the sample statistic
 and the degrees of freedom.
(d) Test the statement that the Poisson distribution fits the sample data. Use a 1% level of significance.
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