Assignment:
Conduct the hypothesis test and provide the test statistic, critical value and or P-value, and state the conclusion.
Bias in Clinical Trials? Researchers investigated the issue of race and equality of access to clinical trials. The table below shows the population distribution and the numbers of participants in clinical trials involving lung cancer (based on data from "Participation in Cancer Clinical Trials," by Murthy, Krumholz, and Gross, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 291, No. 22). Use a 0.01 significance level to test the claim that the distribution of clinical trial participants fits well with the population distribution. Is there a race ethnic group that appears to be very underrepresented?
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Race/ethnicity
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White non-Hispanic
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Hispanic
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black
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Asian/Pacific Islander
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American Indian/laskan native
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Distribution of population
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75.6%
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9.1%
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10.8%
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3.8%
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0.7%
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Number in Lung cancer clinical Trials
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3855
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60
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316
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54
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12
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