TABLE 11-11
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 11-11, the null hypothesis claims that "there is no association between admission status at the college and the type of community in which an applicant resides."

Question

TABLE 11-11
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 11-11, the null hypothesis claims that "there is no association between admission status at the college and the type of community in which an applicant resides."

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The null hypothesis is stating that there is no association between admission status and the type of community, meaning that they are independent of each other.

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