TABLE 12-11
The director of admissions at a state college is interested in seeing if admissions status (admitted,waiting list,denied admission)at his college is independent of the type of community in which an applicant resides.He takes a sample of recent admissions decisions and forms the following table: He will use this table to do a chi-square test of independence with a level of significance of 0.01.
-True or False: Referring to Table 12-11,the alternative hypothesis claims that "there is some connection between admission status at the college and the type of community in which an applicant resides."

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TABLE 12-11
The director of admissions at a state college is interested in seeing if admissions status (admitted,waiting list,denied admission)at his college is independent of the type of community in which an applicant resides.He takes a sample of recent admissions decisions and forms the following table:  He will use this table to do a chi-square test of independence with a level of significance of 0.01.
-True or False: Referring to Table 12-11,the alternative hypothesis claims that "there is some connection between admission status at the college and the type of community in which an applicant resides."

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The alternative hypothesis always states that there is some kind of relationship or association between the variables being studied. In this case, the alternative hypothesis is that there is a connection between admission status and the type of community in which an applicant resides.

TABLE 12-11 The Director of Admissions at a State College Is Interested