The Following Table Shows the Results of a Study on Smoking

question 16

Essay

The following table shows the results of a study on smoking and three illnesses. We are interested in determining if the proportions smokers in the three categories are different from each other.
a.Provide the null and the alternative hypotheses.
b.Determine the expected frequencies.
c.Compute the sample proportions.
d.Compute the critical values (CV_ij).
e.Give your conclusions by providing numerical reasoning.

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