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Ill town two other possible fraud? Cite outlier. reasons for Elyria's status as an 6.54 Rural friendships and the General Social Survey: Earlier, we considered data from the GSS on numbers of close friends people reported having. The mean for this variable is 7.44, with a standard deviation of 10.98. Let's say that you decide to use the GSS data to test whether people who live in rural areas have a different mean number of friends than does the overall GSS sample. Again, treat the overall GSS sample as the entire population of interest. Let's say that you select 40 people living in rural areas and find that they have an average of 3.9 friends. a. What is the independent variable in this study? Is this variable nominal, ordinal, or scale? b. what is the dependent variable in this study? Is this variable nominal, ordinal, or scale? c. What is the null hypothesis for this study? d. What is the research hypothesis for this study? Would we compare the sample data to a distri e. bution of scores or to a distribution of means? Explain.Explanation / Answer
a. Independent variable is the area like rural/urban which is nominal
b.Dependent variable is ordinal which is the average number of friends
c.Null hypothese is people have around equal average number of friends in rural areas than the overall GSS sample
d. Research hypothesis is people have different average number of friends in rural areas than the overall GSS sample