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Measuring Association

Go to the Resources section in this syllabus and open the file media.xls. This file contains information from a study indicating where different age groups primarily get their news. Each cell represents the number of responses from that particular group.

At the .05 level of significance, is there evidence of a significant relationship between age group and where people get their news? If so, explain the relationship. In all cases, make sure to state the null and alternative hypotheses, your statistical decision based on the outcomes (reject or fail to reject the null), and your pragmatic interpretation of the results.
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In the present problem we are given a 4 x 3 contingency table (data is classified in the from of a 4 x 3 table on the basis of two characteristics, media and age group) and, we are asked to examine whether there is any significant relationship between these characteristics at 0.05 level of significance. For this we have to use chi-square test of independence.

Null Hypothesis The characteristics 'age group' and 'source of news' are ...

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