Research Question:

A statistics professor is holding an extra review session for the final exam in their course. They want to know if students' self-ratings of their comfort with statistics at the beginning of the semester was related to whether they chose to attend a review session at the end of term. At the beginning of the semester, all 150 students in the class had rated their comfort level with statistics as Low, Medium, or High; at the end of the semester the professor noted who had attended the review session and who had not.

Answer this:

What type of statistical approach should be used to analyze these data? Briefly explain the data characteristics that you used to make this decision.

Options:

(a) Chi-square independence tests

(b) Chi-square good first test

(b) Type of correlations test