Answered: A researcher wants to determine if the…

MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications

6th Edition

ISBN:9781119256830

Author:Amos Gilat

Publisher:Amos Gilat

Chapter1: Starting With Matlab

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A researcher wants to determine if the number of years of education for a parent correlates with the number of years of education for their child. The table shows the number of years of education of the parent and the number of years of education of their child for a random sample of 7.

Years of Education of Parent	13	9	12	10	12	10	12
Years of Educations of their Child	15	11	10	16	17	12	17

Years of Education

of Parent

Years of Educations

of their Child

Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if there is a significant linear correlation between the two variables. Use α = 0.05. What is the decision for this hypothesis test?

Reject the null because the absolute value of the test statistic is greater than the critical value and the p-value is less than alpha.

Fail to reject the null because the absolute value of the test statistic is less than the critical value and the p-value is greater than alpha.

Reject the null because the absolute value of the test statistic is less than the critical value and the p-value is greater than alpha.

Fail to reject the null because the absolute value of the test statistic is less than the critical value and the p-value is less than alpha.

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