TABLE 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 Table 12-11, the p-value of this test is greater than 0.01.

Question

TABLE 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 Table 12-11, the p-value of this test is greater than 0.01.

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We cannot determine the exact p-value from the information given, but we know that it is greater than the level of significance of 0.01. Therefore, we fail to reject the null hypothesis of independence between admissions status and type of community.

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