Mike Wogan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Glenn Gee wrote:
>
> > I have a question in regards to which test statistic to use. Example:
> > my problem is a test of glue "A" vs glue "B". I have a test that just
> > determines if glue "A" remains stuck to the surface or not. The test
> > does not have any other measurements. It holds or does not hold. If I
> > test 5 samples of glue "A" against 5 samples of glue "B" with the
> > following results:
> > glue "A" held 4 times, glue "B" held 2 times.
>
> Glenn,
>
> I agree you need more samples. Why don't you do a Chi Square goodness
> of fit test, with the "hypothesized" values 50% for each glue?
>
> Mike
A better test would be a chi-squared test of independence, which does
not
assume a particular failure probability for each glue.
