TABLE 4-4 Suppose That Patrons of a Restaurant Were Asked Whether They

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True/False

TABLE 4-4
Suppose that patrons of a restaurant were asked whether they preferred beer or whether they preferred wine. 70% said that they preferred beer. 60% of the patrons were male. 80% of the males preferred beer.
-Referring to Table 4-4, the two events "preferring" beer and being a male are statistically independent.

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Definitions:

Randomized Block Design

An experimental design that groups subjects into blocks based on certain characteristics before randomly assigning treatments, to reduce the variability within treatment conditions.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values in a calculation that are free to vary when estimating statistical parameters.

Randomized Block Design

An experimental design in which subjects are grouped into blocks based on certain characteristics before being randomly assigned to different treatments.

Sum of Squares for Blocks

A measure used in analysis of variance to quantify the variability among different blocks or groups in an experiment.