{"id":2444,"date":"2021-10-14T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2444"},"modified":"2022-04-22T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T00:03:04","slug":"introduction-to-test-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/chapter\/introduction-to-test-of-independence\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Test of Independence","rendered":"Introduction to Test of Independence"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0Understand a chi-square test of independence and interpret the conclusion in context<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2445 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5668\/2021\/10\/14154721\/pexels-pixabay-267885-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Students graduating, throwing hats in the air.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Are people who have a higher level of education more likely to own a home? Is owning a home dependent on the level of education? To answer these questions, a chi-square test of independence would be done. A chi-square test of independence is done to see if there is an association between two categorical variables. The procedure for doing this test is similar to the procedure for doing a chi-square goodness-of-fit test.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0Understand a chi-square test of independence and interpret the conclusion in context<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2445 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5668\/2021\/10\/14154721\/pexels-pixabay-267885-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Students graduating, throwing hats in the air.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Are people who have a higher level of education more likely to own a home? Is owning a home dependent on the level of education? To answer these questions, a chi-square test of independence would be done. A chi-square test of independence is done to see if there is an association between two categorical variables. The procedure for doing this test is similar to the procedure for doing a chi-square goodness-of-fit test.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2444\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Newly Graduated People Wearing Black Academy Gowns Throwing Hats Up in the Air. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Pixabay. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Pexels. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/newly-graduated-people-wearing-black-academy-gowns-throwing-hats-up-in-the-air-267885\/\">https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/newly-graduated-people-wearing-black-academy-gowns-throwing-hats-up-in-the-air-267885\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/cc0\">CC0: No Rights Reserved<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":169134,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Newly Graduated People Wearing Black Academy Gowns Throwing Hats Up in the Air\",\"author\":\"Pixabay\",\"organization\":\"Pexels\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/newly-graduated-people-wearing-black-academy-gowns-throwing-hats-up-in-the-air-267885\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2444","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":293,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2444\/revisions\/3934"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/293"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2444\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/introstatscorequisite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}