Statistics - Hypothesis test - ChiSquare test
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Here we examine the relationship between social class and spending on welfare and education.
Lower Class Working Class Middle Class Upper Class
Spending on
welfare Too little 18 59 73 4
About right 12 109 132 10
Too much 16 142 121 12
Total 46 310 326 26
Lower Class Working Class Middle Class Upper Class
Spending on
education Too little 36 232 244 19
About right 10 71 70 4
Too much 2 13 18 3
Total 48 316 332 26
a) Calculate the value of chi-square for each table. What is the number of degrees of freedom for each table?
b) Based on an alpha of .01, do you reject the null hypothesis?
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Null Hypothesis H0 : Social Class and spending on Welfare are not dependent
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