A group of civil engineering students has tabulated the number of cars passing eastbound through the intersection

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A group of civil engineering students has tabulated the number of cars passing eastbound through the intersection of Mill and University Avenues. They obtained the data in the following table.

(a) Does the assumption of a Poisson distribution seem appropriate as a probability model for this process? Use α = 0.05.

(b) Calculate the P-value for this test.

Vehicles per Observed Minute Vehicles per Observed Minute Frequency Frequency 40 14 53 102 41 24 54 96 42 57 55 90 43 11

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Applied Statistics And Probability For Engineers

ISBN: 9781118539712

6th Edition

Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger

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