The Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal (Mar.

2005) published a study of college students and drinking.

One of the researchers’ main objectives was to segment college students according to their rates of alcohol consumption.

A segmentation was developed based on survey responses to the questions on frequency of drinking and average number of drinks per occasion for a sample of 657 students. Four types, or groups, of college drinkers emerged:

non/seldom drinkers, social drinkers, typical binge drinkers, and heavy binge drinkers. Frequencies are shown in the accompanying SPSS printout. Is this sufficient evidence to indicate that the true proportions in the population of college students are different?

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Chi-Square Test Frequencies TYPE Observed N Expected N Residual Nor/Seldom 118 164.3 -46.3 Social 282 164.3 117.8 Typical Binge 163 164.3 -1.3 Heavy Binge 94 164.3 -70.3 Total 657 Test Statistics TYPE Chi-Squarea 127493 dt Asymp. Sig. 3 000 a. 0 cells (0%) have expected frequencies less than 5. The minimum expected cell frequency is 164.3.