Fear of darkness
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Fear of darkness is a common emotion. The following data were obtained by asking 200 individuals in each age group whether they had serious fears of darkness. At α = 0.01, do we have sufficient evidence to reject the hypothesis that “The same proportion of each age group has serious fears of darkness”?
Age Group | Elementary | Jr. High | Sr. High | College | Adult |
No. Who Fear Darkness | 83 | 72 | 49 | 36 | 114 |
a. The above table is an incomplete contingency table even though at first glance it might appear to be multinomial. Explain why. (Hint: The contingency table must account for all 1000 people.)
b. Solve using the p-value approach.
c. Solve using the classical approach.
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