Table 5
Chi-square test results to compare increases and decreases (week before to week of release), 1990 to 2009

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Table 5
Chi-square test results to compare increases and decreases (week before to week of release), 1990 to 2009
Table summary
 This table displays the results of chi-square test results to compare increases and decreases. This information is grouped by Crops appearing as row header, and is grouped by Observed, Expected, Test results, Increase, Decrease, X2 and Inference appearing as column headers.
Crops Observed Expected Test results
Increase Decrease Increase Decrease X2 Inference
Specialty Crops  
Large Green Lentils 45 46 45.5 45.5 0.01 H0 accepted
Small Green Lentils 34 45 39.5 39.5 1.53 H0 accepted
Medium green Lentils 37 31 34 34 0.53 H0 accepted
French Green Lentils 12 22 17 17 2.94 H0 accepted
Red Lentils 38 29 33.5 33.5 1.21 H0 accepted
Brown Mustard 23 15 19 19 1.68 H0 accepted
Yellow Mustard 24 15 19.5 19.5 2.08 H0 accepted
Oriental Mustard 20 19 19.5 19.5 0.03 H0 accepted
Sunflower Seed 40 26 33 33 2.97 H0 accepted
Canary Seed 43 45 44 44 0.05 H0 accepted
Desi Chick 20 21 20.5 20.5 0.02 H0 accepted
Kabuli Chick 27 24 25.5 25.5 0.18 H0 accepted
Field Green Peas 38 26 32 32 2.25 H0 accepted
Field Yellow Peas 47 25 36 36 6.72 H1 accepted
Field Peas 24 24 24 24 0.00 H0 accepted
Total 471 413 442 442 3.81 H0 accepted
Major Grains  
Oats 68 65 66.5 66.5 0.07 H0 accepted
Canola 66 85 75.5 75.5 2.39 H0 accepted
Flax: 77 76 76.5 76.5 0.01 H0 accepted
Barley 81 72 76.5 76.5 0.53 H0 accepted
Feed Wheat 79 68 73 73 0.82 H0 accepted
Total 371 366 368.5 368.5 0.03 H0 accepted
Chi-square test at alpha=0.05
H0: The price reactions are negative, and positive an equal number of times
H1: The distribution is not the same as stated in the null hypothesis
Source: Statistics Canada, authors' calculation.
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