Statistics 2070 Use the following scenario for problem 15 through 19. Abuse of t
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Statistics 2070
Use the following scenario for problem 15 through 19. Abuse of the elderly --- a fairly new area of research. To examine this situation I asked a sample of 100 elderly women (over 80 years old) in a city in Southern Russia and a sample of 100 elderly women in Chicago the following question, “In the past year have you personally experienced financial abuse, psychological abuse, both financial and psychological abuse, or neither?” Here are the results
Personally Experienced Abuse
Financial Psychological Both Neither
10 10 70 ++ 10
25 10 30 35 +
Russian Elderly Women
American Elderly Women
15. Step 1 – What is the test situation? Defend your selection (why did you choose the test situation that you did)?
16. Step 2 – What are you hypotheses for this scenario?
17. Step 3 – Calculate the value of the test statistic (show all of your work)
18. Step 4 – What is your statistical decision? Defend your answer.
19. Step 5 – Interpret your statistical decision (Interpret the cells marked with ++ and +; both of these cells represent the highest positive O-E deviations).
Explanation / Answer
What is the test situation? Defend your selection (why did you choose the test situation that you did)? the data is a categorical data so we use chi-square test statistics