Researchers wanted to examine whether adults in poor health are more likely to believe in the...

 

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Researchers wanted to examine whether adults in poor health are more likely to believe in the afterlife. A survey is given to 1500 randomly selected adults, and 1369 adults responded to the survey. With the results shown in the Excel output below, answer the following questions: Health Excellent Good Poor Grand Belief in life after death Total No 75 151 57 283 Yes 335 501 250 1086 Grand Total 410 652 307 1369 Chi-square test statistic = p-value = 4.7053 0.0951 (a) What are the independent and dependent variables? (1 mark) (b) What is the sample size? (0.5 mark) (c) What are the null and alternative hypotheses? (1 mark) (d) Which groups are being compared in the hypotheses? (0.5 mark) (e) Is the relationship shown in the sample consistent with the researchers' hypothesis? Support this with relevant percentages. (1 mark) (f) Is the relationship significant? Support this with relevant statistics. (1 mark) Researchers wanted to examine whether adults in poor health are more likely to believe in the afterlife. A survey is given to 1500 randomly selected adults, and 1369 adults responded to the survey. With the results shown in the Excel output below, answer the following questions: Health Excellent Good Poor Grand Belief in life after death Total No 75 151 57 283 Yes 335 501 250 1086 Grand Total 410 652 307 1369 Chi-square test statistic = p-value = 4.7053 0.0951 (a) What are the independent and dependent variables? (1 mark) (b) What is the sample size? (0.5 mark) (c) What are the null and alternative hypotheses? (1 mark) (d) Which groups are being compared in the hypotheses? (0.5 mark) (e) Is the relationship shown in the sample consistent with the researchers' hypothesis? Support this with relevant percentages. (1 mark) (f) Is the relationship significant? Support this with relevant statistics. (1 mark)

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