In: Statistics and Probability
A sports statistician is interested in determining if there is a relationship between the number of home team and visiting team losses and different sports. A random sample of 526 games is selected and the results are given below. Calculate the chi-square test statistic chi Subscript 0 Superscript 2 to test the claim that the number of home team and visiting team losses is independent of the sport. Use alphaequals0.01.
Football | Baseball | Soccer | Basketball | |
Home Losses | 39 | 156 | 25 | 83 |
Visiting Loses | 31 | 98 | 19 | 75 |
A. 2.919
B. 5.391
C. 3.290
D. 4.192