Use a ?² Test to Test the Claim That in the Given

question 21

Essay

Use a ?² test to test the claim that in the given contingency table, the row variable and the column variable are independent
-A company manager wishes to test a union leader's claim that absences occur on the different week days with the same frequencies. Test this claim at the 0.05 level of significance if the following sample data have been compiled. $$\begin{array} { c | r r r r r } \text { Day } & \text { Mon } & \text { Tue } & \text { Wed } & \text { Thur } & \text { Fri } \\\hline \text { Absences } & 37 & 15 & 12 & 23 & 43\end{array}$$

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Definitions:

Unethical Deception

Involves actions or statements that intentionally mislead or deceive others for personal gain or to avoid negative consequences.

Radical Activists

Individuals or groups who take extreme actions to effect change in pursuit of their political, social, or environmental goals.

Laboratory Experiments

Research methods that involve the manipulation of one or more variables in a controlled environment to observe the effects on behavior.

Confounding Variables

These are variables that the researcher failed to control, or eliminate, damaging the internal validity of an experiment by providing a possible alternative explanation for outcomes.