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

question 179

Short Answer

TABLE 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 Table 12-11, the test will involve ________ degrees of freedom.

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Definitions:

Ethics

A set of moral principles that govern the behavior of individuals and organizations.

Accounting

The systematic recording, reporting, and analysis of financial transactions of a business.

Business Organizations

Entities formed for the purpose of carrying on a commercial enterprise, including sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, and other types.

Key Attributes

Essential properties or characteristics that define or identify something, often used in database systems to describe significant fields in a table.