Question: Use the sign test to test whether the median difference between years of education for a person's mother and father is 0. Can you reject
Use the sign test to test whether the median difference between years of education for a person's mother and father is 0. Can you reject the null hypothesis?






Frequencies N HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL Negative Differences 304 COMPLETED, FATHER - HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL Positive Differences 285 COMPLETED, MOTHER Ties 318 Total 907 a. HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, FATHER HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, MOTHER C. HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, FATHER = HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, MOTHERTest Statistics HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, FATHER HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, MOTHER Z -.742 Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .458 a. Sign TestPaired Samples Statistics Std. Std. Error Mean N Deviation Mean Pair 1 HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL 11.55 907 3.450 .115 COMPLETED, MOTHER HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL 11.35 907 4.106 .136 COMPLETED, FATHERPaired Samples Correlations N Correlation Sig. Pair 1 HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL 907 .639 000 COMPLETED, MOTHER & HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, FATHERPaired Samples Test Paired Differences 95% Confidence Interval of Std. Std. Error the Difference Sig. (2- Mean Deviation Mean Lower Upper t df tailed) Pair 1 HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL 196 3.266 108 -.017 409 1.810 906 071 COMPLETED, MOTHER - HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL COMPLETED, FATHERStatistics HIGHEST HIGHEST YEAR YEAR SCHOOL SCHOOL COMPLETED. COMPLETED MOTHER FATHER N Valid 1193 977 Missing 226 442 Mean 11.33 11.25 Std. Error of Mean 102 133 Median 12.00 12.00 Mode 12 12 Std. Deviation 3.538 4.165 Variance 12.518 17.349
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