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Does the Treatment Affect Success? The following table lists frequencies of successes and failures for different treatments used for a stress fracture in a foot bone (based on data from “Surgery Unfounded for Tarsal Navicular Stress Fracture,” by Bruce Jancin, Internal Medicine News, Vol. 42, No. 14). Use a 0.05 significance level to test the claim that success of the treatment is independent of the type of treatment. What does the result indicate about the increasing trend to use surgery?

Explain why the chi-square independence test is always a right-tailed test.

True or False? In Exercises 5 and 6, determine whether the statement is true or false. If it is false, rewrite it as a true statement.

If the two variables in a chi-square independence test are dependent, then you can expect little difference between the observed frequencies and the expected frequencies.

True or False? In Exercises 5 and 6, determine whether the statement is true or false. If it is false, rewrite it as a true statement.

When the test statistic for the chi-square independence test is large, you will, in most cases, reject the null hypothesis.

Performing a Chi-Square Independence Test In Exercises 13–28, perform the indicated chi-square independence test by performing the steps below.

a. Identify the claim and state H₀ and Hₐ

b. Determine the degrees of freedom, find the critical value, and identify the rejection region.

c. Find the chi-square test statistic.

d. Decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.

e. Interpret the decision in the context of the original claim.

Use the contingency table and expected frequencies from Exercise 8. At α=0.05, test the hypothesis that the variables are dependent.

Performing a Chi-Square Independence Test In Exercises 13–28, perform the indicated chi-square independence test by performing the steps below.

a. Identify the claim and state H₀ and Hₐ

b. Determine the degrees of freedom, find the critical value, and identify the rejection region.

c. Find the chi-square test statistic.

d. Decide whether to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis.

e. Interpret the decision in the context of the original claim.

Attitudes about Safety The contingency table shows the results of a random sample of students by type of school and their attitudes on safety steps taken by the school staff. At α=0.01, can you conclude that attitudes about the safety steps taken by the school staff are related to the type of school? (Adapted from Horatio Alger Association)