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Sullivan Statistics Survey In the Sullivan Statistics
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Problem 19AYU
Sullivan Statistics Survey In the Sullivan Statistics Survey, respondents were asked to disclose their political affiliation (Democrat, Independent, Republican) and also answer the following question: “Would you be willing to pay higher taxes if the tax revenue went directly toward deficit reduction?” Create a contingency table and determine whether the results suggest there is an association between political affiliation and willingness to pay higher taxes to directly reduce the federal debt. Use the α = 0.05 level of significance.
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Problem 19AYU
Sullivan Statistics Survey In the Sullivan Statistics Survey, respondents were asked to disclose their political affiliation (Democrat, Independent, Republican) and also answer the following question: “Would you be willing to pay higher taxes if the tax revenue went directly toward deficit reduction?” Create a contingency table and determine whether the results suggest there is an association between political affiliation and willingness to pay higher taxes to directly reduce the federal debt. Use the α = 0.05 level of significance.
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In this problem, data from sullivan statistics survey is used. The data columns used are the party and deficit. The data is used to study is there is an association between the person’s political affiliation and his/her willingness to pay higher taxes for deficit reduction. There are 199 rows of data and the first 11 values from the data are given below.
Party |
Deficit |
Independent |
No |
Independent |
Yes |
Independent |
No |
Democrat |
Yes |
Democrat |
No |
Democrat |
No |
Republican |
yes |
Republican |
No |
Democrat |
Yes |
Independent |
Yes |
Republican |
No |
We need to construct contingency table for the two given variables namely, Party and Deficit.