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a. Construct two contingency tables giving counts relating gender to whether hired (yes or no), one table for white-collar jobs and one table for blue-collar jobs.
b. Construct a single contingency table for gender and whether hired, combining all 900 applicants into one table. Verify that the percentages not hired are as quoted above by the government official.
c. Comparing the data in the tables constructed in parts a and b, explain why this is an example of Simpson’s paradox.
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Statistics The Art And Science Of Learning From Data
ISBN: 9780321755940
3rd Edition
Authors: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin
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