Newspaper headlines at the time and traditional wisdom in the succeeding decades have held that women and children escaped a sunken ship in greater proportion than men. Here's a table with the relevant data. Do you think that survival was independent of whether the person was male or female? Defend your conclusion. A. Is there evidence of a significant difference between the proportion of males and females who survived at the 0.005 level of significance? What are the null and alternative hypotheses to test? B. Are the conditions for inference satisfied? C. Calculate the test statistic D. Determine the P-value and interpret the meaning E. Reject or Fail to Reject and why?
Newspaper headlines at the time and traditional wisdom in the succeeding decades have held that women and children escaped a sunken ship in greater proportion than men. Here's a table with the relevant data. Do you think that survival was independent of whether the person was male or female? Defend your conclusion.
A. Is there evidence of a significant difference between the proportion of males and females who survived at the 0.005 level of significance? What are the null and alternative hypotheses to test?
B. Are the conditions for inference satisfied?
C. Calculate the test statistic
D. Determine the P-value and interpret the meaning
E. Reject or Fail to Reject and why?
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