Chapter 7
Inference with Qualitative Data
Inference for a Single Proportion: Pacific Salmon Migration
Inference for Two Proportions: The Tooth Fairy
The Chi-Square Goodness of Fit: The Supreme Court
The Chi-Square Test of Independence: Race and Longevity in the Nineteenth Century
The Chi-Square Test of Homogeneity of Proportions: Is Golf for the Birds?
Introduction
In this chapter, I will round out my discussion of inference, focusing on qualitative (categorical) data. Once again, I will offer a sequence of vignettes for hypothesis testing and confidence intervals. As we work through our examples of inference with categorical data you will see that some of the techniques are slightly different ...
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