A sports statistician is interested in determining if there is a relationship be

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A sports statistician is interested in determining if there is a relationship between the mumber of home team and visiting team losses and different sports. A random sample of 525 games is results are given below. Calculate the chi-square test satistie x to test the claim that the number of home team and visiting team losses is independent of the sport Use a 0.01. Football Basketball Soccer Basebal 83 75 156 98 25 Home team losses Visiting team losses 39 31 19 OA. 5.391 ??. 2.919 C. 3290 OD. 4.192

Explanation / Answer

option C =3.290

Ho: the number of home and visiting losses is independent of the sport

Ha: the number of home and visiting losses is not independent of the sport

The test statistic is

chisquare= 3.29

df=3

p-value= 0.349

Since the p-value is larger than 0.01, we do not reject Ho.

So we can conclude that the number of home and visiting losses is independent of the sport

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