SCENARIO 12-11 The Director of Admissions at a State College Is Interested

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SCENARIO 12-11
The director of admissions at a state college is interested in seeing if admissions status (admitted,waiting list,denied admission)at his college is independent of the type of community in which an applicant resides.He takes a sample of recent admissions decisions and forms the following table:
He will use this table to do a chi-square test of independence with a level of significance of 0.01.
-Referring to Scenario 12-11,the expected cell frequency for the Admitted/Urban cell is .

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Definitions:

Pattern Formation

The biological process by which cells in an organism acquire different identities, leading to the emergence of patterns such as stripes or spots during development.

Maternal Effect Gene

A gene whose expression in a mother affects the phenotype of her offspring, independent of the offspring's genotype.

Post-Translational Modification

The chemical modification of proteins after they have been synthesized, altering their function and activity within the cell.

DNA Binding Sites

Specific sequences in the DNA to which proteins such as transcription factors can bind, influencing the regulation of genes.