In the following table, The independent variableis_______________ , and the dependent variable is_____________ Whatis the null and the alternative hypotheses?  Running achi-square analysis, you obtain a chi-square value of 22.9 with asignificance level of <0.000, which hypothesis (null oralternative) should you, therefore, choose ascorrect?  Can you estimate a directionalmeasure ofassociation between these two variables? Why or whynot?
                                                                                   Sex
Political party | Male | female | Total |
Democrat | 179 | 312 | 491 |
Republican | 273 | 347 | 620 |
Independent | 183 | 173 | 356 |
Other party | 15 | 10 | 25 |
Total | 650 | 842 | 1492 |
