SCENARIO 12-2 The Dean of a College Is Interested in the Proportion

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SCENARIO 12-2
The dean of a college is interested in the proportion of graduates from his college who have a job offer on graduation day.He is particularly interested in seeing if there is a difference in this proportion for accounting and economics majors.In a random sample of 100 of each type of major at graduation,he found that 65 accounting majors and 52 economics majors had job offers.If the accounting majors are designated as "Group 1" and the economics majors are designated as "Group 2," perform the appropriate hypothesis test using a level of significance of 0.05.
-Referring to Scenario 12-2,the value of the test statistic is .

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Definitions:

Correlation

A statistical measure that describes the extent to which two variables change together, but does not necessarily indicate causation.

Research Method

The systematic plan, strategy, and approach that scientists and scholars use to gather, analyze, and interpret data and information to uncover new knowledge.

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

A prediction or expectation that causes itself to become true, due to the feedback between belief and behavior.

Attribution

The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events, typically as being either internally (personally) or externally (situationally) driven.