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Company W is testing a sales software. Their salesforce of 500 people is divided into four regions: Northeast, Southeast, Central and West. Each sales person is expected to sell the same amount of products. During the last 3 months, only half of the sales representatives in each region were given the software program to help them manage their contacts.

The VP of Sales at WidgeCorp, who is comfortable with statistics, wants to know the possible null and alternative hypotheses for a non-parametric test on this data using the chi-square distribution. A non-parametric test is used on data that is qualitative or categorical, such as gender, age group, region, and color. It is used when it doesn't make sense to look at the mean of such variables.

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The solution examines the software program to manage contacts for sales in difference regions.

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Null: There is no relationship between use of software program and performance of sales person
Alternate: The performance of sales person depends upon the use of software program.

Then collect the data on the actual number of products sold by these sales people and form the cross-table

Region/Software Use NE SE ...

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