In the Fall of 1862 Confederate Optimism About the War

question 7

Multiple Choice

In the fall of 1862 Confederate optimism about the war was ________.

• A) very low
• B) at a record low
• C) high
• D) falling

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Chi-square Distribution

A probability distribution that arises in statistics as the distribution of a sum of the squares of independent standard normal random variables.

P-value

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Sample Data

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Matched Pairs

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