In: Statistics and Probability
Is HDTV ownership related to quantity of purchases of other
electronics? A Best Buy retail outlet collected the following data
for a random sample of its recent customers. At α = 0.10,
is the frequency of in-store purchases independent of the number of
large-screen HDTVs owned (defined as 50 inches or more)?
In-Store Purchases Last Month | |||||||||||||||
HDTVs Owned | None | One | More Than One | Row Total | |||||||||||
None | 14 | 15 | 12 | 41 | |||||||||||
One | 17 | 33 | 30 | 80 | |||||||||||
Two or More | 19 | 40 | 63 | 122 | |||||||||||
Col Total | 50 | 88 | 105 | 243 |
Calculate the chi-square test statistic, degrees of freedom, and the p-value.