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Two allergists recorded the main area of allergy for new patients during a month

ID: 2907324 • Letter: T

Question

Two allergists recorded the main area of allergy for new patients during a month. The data is shown below: Allergies Pollen Food Mold Pets Doctor 1 Doctor 2 34 6 23 Using ? = .05, test the claim that the allergy diagnosis and the doctor that treated the patients are independent. There is not evidence to reject the claim that the allergy diagnosis and the doctor are not related because the test value 2.074> 15.507 There is not evidence to reject the claim that the allergy diagnosis and the doctor are not related because the test value 6.1252.074

Explanation / Answer

The statistical software output for this problem is:

Contingency table results:
Rows: var3
Columns: None


Chi-Square test:

Hence,

Option B is correct.

Pollen Food Mold Pets Total Doctor 1 8 5 9 8 30 Doctor 2 34 6 11 23 74 Total 42 11 20 31 104