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A study reported by D. Goldberg in “The Detection of Psychiatric Illness by Questionnaire”(Oxford University, London,...

  1. A study reported by D. Goldberg in “The Detection of Psychiatric Illness by Questionnaire”(Oxford University, London, 1972) examined the relationship between mental-health classification and thoughts of suicide. The mental health of each person was classified and each person was asked, “Have you recently found that the idea of taking your own life kept coming into your mind?” Following are the results. Transfer the table to your blue book.

                            Mental Health

Response

Normal

Mild
Illness

Severe Illness

Definitely not

   90

43

34

Don’t think so

    5

18

   8

Crossed my mind

    3

21

21

Definitely yes

    1

15

36

Is there evidence that an association exists between response to the suicide question and mental-health classification?
a) What kind of chi-square test is appropriate; goodness-of-fit, homogeneity or independence?  
b) State the Hypotheses.  
      c) Compute the expected cell values.   
      d) Calculate the test statistic .   
      e) Make a sketch, give the degrees of freedom.
f) Find the p-value and state your conclusion followed by a summary sentence.

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