SCENARIO 12-11
The director of admissions at a state college is interested in seeing if admissions status (admitted,waiting list,denied admission)at his college is independent of the type of community in which an applicant resides.He takes a sample of recent admissions decisions and forms the following table:
He will use this table to do a chi-square test of independence with a level of significance of 0.01.
-Referring to Scenario 12-11,the same decision would be made with this test if the level of significance had been 0.005.

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SCENARIO 12-11
The director of admissions at a state college is interested in seeing if admissions status (admitted,waiting list,denied admission)at his college is independent of the type of community in which an applicant resides.He takes a sample of recent admissions decisions and forms the following table:
  He will use this table to do a chi-square test of independence with a level of significance of 0.01.
-Referring to Scenario 12-11,the same decision would be made with this test if the level of significance had been 0.005.

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The decision to conduct a chi-square test of independence would still be made with a level of significance of 0.005 because it is lower than the default level of 0.01.

SCENARIO 12-11 The Director of Admissions at a State College Is Interested