(1 point) A researcher is interested in whether the number of years of formal education is...

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(1 point) A researcher is interested in whether the number ofyears of formal education is related to a person's decision tonever smoke, continue to smoke, or quit smoking cigarettes. Thedata below represent the smoking status by level of education forresidents of the United States 18 years or older from a randomsample of 350 residents. Round all numeric answers to four decimalplaces.

Smoking Status
Education LevelCurrentFormerNever
Less than high school141926
High school251438
Some College3258124

1. Select the name of the test that should be used to assess thehypotheses:

?0H0: \"Smoking Status\" is independent of \"Education Level\"

??HA: \"Smoking Status\" is not independent of \"EducationLevel\"


A. ?2X2 test of independence
B. ?2X2 test of a single variance
C. ?2X2 goodness of fit

2. Under the null hypothesis, what is the expected number forpeople with an education of Some college and a smoking status ofNever?  

3. Calculate the ?2X2 test statistic.

4.What was the contribution of Never smokers who attended Somecollege toward this test statistic?

5. What are the degrees of freedom for this test?

6. What is the p-value for this test?

7. Based on the p-value, we have:
A. strong evidence
B. very strong evidence
C. some evidence
D. little evidence
E. extremely strong evidence
that the null model is not a good fit for our observed data.

8. Which of the following is a necessary condition in order forthe hypothesis test results to be valid? Check all thatapply.

A. There must be at least 10 \"yes\" and 10 \"no\"observations for each variable.
B. The observations must be independent of oneanother.
C. The population data must be normallydistributed.
D. There must be an observed count of at least 5in every cell of the table.
E. There must be an expected count of at least 5in every cell of the table.

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