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Statistics Essentials For Dummies

by Deborah J. Rumsey
May 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
192 pages
4h 8m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 11

Two-Way Tables

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Organizing probabilities in two-way tables

Bullet Figuring marginal, conditional, and joint probabilities

Bullet Checking for independence

Categorical variables place individuals into groups based on certain possible outcomes. For example, gender (male, female) whether you ate breakfast this morning (yes, no), or political affiliation (Democrat, Republican, Independent, Other). Oftentimes you look for relationships between two categorical variables; for example, “Are females more likely to eat breakfast than males?” A two-way table classifies individuals into groups based on all possible pairs of outcomes of two categorical variables (for example, male breakfast eaters, female breakfast eaters, and so on). In this chapter, you see how two-way tables help you organize and figure probabilities and check for independence of two events.

Organizing and Interpreting a Two-Way Table

Suppose you are a basketball nut and you love to watch your favorite player shoot free throws. After watching him shoot pairs of free throws for a long time, you notice two things. First, it seems like he makes the second shot more often than he makes the first. You also believe, ...

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