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Basic inferential statistics: Solution

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Basic inferential statistics: Solution

(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Let's have a look at the solutions now in financial statistics challenge. I've already loaded up the NLSW88 data, and the first challenge was to explore the race and union membership variable. So let's go ahead and take a look. Let's tabulate race against union. So here we have some numbers. Most women in our sample are white and union members over here. So the question is, how these two variables associated with each other. Let's insert some row percentages to take a further look. We can do that by adding the row option. We now see that black women appear to be slightly more likely to be union members than white women. To check whether this association is statistically significant, let's add a chi square test to the tabulate option. Chi square. Select. Run. Race and union membership are indeed statistically significantly associated with each other. Since we reject the null of no association between these variables with such a small key value. And that…

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