Solution Found!
Solved: Home Field Advantage Winning-team data were
Chapter 11, Problem 6 RE(choose chapter or problem)
Problem 6RE
Home Field Advantage Winning-team data were collected for teams in different sports, with the results given in the accompanying table (based on data from “Predicting Professional Sports Game Outcomes from Intermediate Game Scores,” by Copper, DeNeve, and Mosteller, Chance, Vol. 5, No. 3–4). Use a 0.05 level of significance to test the claim that home/visitor wins are independent of the sport.
|
Basketball |
Baseball |
Hockey |
Football |
Home Team Wins |
127 |
53 |
50 |
57 |
Visiting Team Wins |
71 |
47 |
43 |
42 |
Questions & Answers
QUESTION:
Problem 6RE
Home Field Advantage Winning-team data were collected for teams in different sports, with the results given in the accompanying table (based on data from “Predicting Professional Sports Game Outcomes from Intermediate Game Scores,” by Copper, DeNeve, and Mosteller, Chance, Vol. 5, No. 3–4). Use a 0.05 level of significance to test the claim that home/visitor wins are independent of the sport.
|
Basketball |
Baseball |
Hockey |
Football |
Home Team Wins |
127 |
53 |
50 |
57 |
Visiting Team Wins |
71 |
47 |
43 |
42 |
ANSWER:
Solution 6RE
Using the MINITAB, we find the chi-square test statistic.