Question

A researcher wants to study the relationship between salary and gender. She randomly selects 314 individuals and determines their salary and gender. Can the researcher conclude that salary and gender are dependent? Income Total Female 60 28 86 65 Below $25,000 $25,000-$50,000 $50,000-$75,000 Above $75,000 Total Male 26 37 37 54 154 30 42 67 96 14 160 3 Copy Data Step 4 of 8: Find the value of the test statistic. Round your answer to three decimal places.

Answer 1

The statistical software output for this problem is:

Contingency table results: Rows: Income Columns: None Male Female Total <$25000 26 60 86 $25000-$50000 37 28 65 $50000-$75000 37 30 67 Above $75000 42 96 54 Total 154 160 314 Chi-Square test: Value P-value Statistic DF Chi-square 3 16.810846 0.0008 LD

Hence,

Test statistic = 16.811