The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 25 - Two Categorical Variables: The Chi-Square Test - Check Your Skills - Page 601: 25.26

Answer

(b).

Work Step by Step

We are checking whether the distribution of "accidental" and "not-accidental" injuries are the same. Then the null hypothesis says that there is no difference between the conditional probabilities of the type of accident for each age category. Thus the answer is (b).
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