In a survey of 50 students in an introductory statistics students, data were collected on an individual€™s sex and breakfast eating habits. Here is a table of the summarized data:

a. Is this an experiment or an observational study? How are you deciding?

b. Identify the observational units.

c. Identify the explanatory and response variables. Also, for each variable, identify whether it is categorical or quantitative.

d. State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses in words.

e. Explain why it would NOT be okay to use the theory-based method to find a p-value for this study.

f. Describe how one might use everyday items (for example, coins, dice, cards, etc.) to conduct a tactile simulation-based test of the hypotheses. Be sure to clearly describe how the p-value will be computed from the simulation.

g. Use an appropriate applet (for example, the Multiple Proportions applet) to find and report the following from the data: (i) the name of a statistic and its numeric value and (ii) the simulation based p-value.

h. Interpret the p-value in the context of the study.

i. State a complete conclusion about this study, including significance, causation, and generalization. Be sure to explain how you are arriving at your conclusion.

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Females Males Total Every morning 26 21 5 Most mornings 4 11 Eat breakfast? Some mornings 3 10 Never 2 3 Total 37 13 50