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Exercise 37

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Offshore drilling, Part III. The table below summarizes a data set we first encountered in Exercise 6.23 that examines the responses of a random sample of college graduates and non-graduates on the topic of oil drilling. Complete a chi-square test for these data to check whether there is a statistically significant difference in responses from college graduates and non-graduates.

College Grad
Yes No
Support 154 132
Oppose 180 126
Do not know 104 131
Total 438 389

Diez, Barr & Çetinkaya-Rundel, OpenIntro Statistics, Inference for categorical data, End-of-Chapter Exercises, Exercise 37

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