Here Is a Two-Way Table of the Numbers of College

question 35

Multiple Choice

Here is a two-way table of the numbers of college students (U.S. citizens only) classified by racial/ethnic group and by whether they attend a public or a private college. The entries are in thousands of students.

There is no reason to use the chi-square test on these data, because

• A) the hypothesis that chi-square tests makes no sense here.
• B) the data describe the entire population of college students, so there is no inference from sample to population.
• C) the sample size is so large that any test will certainly be highly significant.
• D) the sample size is too small to allow use of the chi-square test.

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Clayton Act

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Celler-Kefauver Act

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