Question

Suppose the House of Representatives had a recent vote. The President praised it, saying that everyone involved voted independently of party. Is this true? I have entered in the numbers I got using the formula from the chi-square statistic. Republican Democrat Independent 0.44 0.19 0.35 voted yes voted no 0.13 0,50 0.46 abstained from voting 0.71 0.06 5.93 What is the chi-square value? [Select 1 What is the p-value? [Select]

Answer 1

		Col 1	Col 2	Col 3	Total
Row 1	Observed	0	0	0	1
	Expected	0.14	0.08	0.75	0.98
	O - E	0.30	0.11	-0.40	0.00
	(O - E)² / E	0.62	0.13	0.22	0.97
Row 2	Observed	0	1	0	1
	Expected	0.16	0.09	0.84	1.09
	O - E	-0.03	0.41	-0.38	0.00
	(O - E)² / E	0.01	1.78	0.17	1.95
Row 3	Observed	1	0	6	7
	Expected	0.98	0.57	5.15	6.70
	O - E	-0.27	-0.51	0.78	0.00
	(O - E)² / E	0.07	0.46	0.12	0.65
Total	Observed	1	1	7	9
	Expected	1.28	0.75	6.74	8.77
	O - E	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
	(O - E)² / E	0.70	2.37	0.50	3.57
		3.57	chi-square
		4	df
		0.4675	p-value

because expected value is higher.

Independents who abstained