Question

A company is interested in the satisfaction of their employees, so they hired a consulting firm to conduct an in-house study. Employees were classified into three categories (support staff, analysts and executives) and asked if they felt the company had a healthy work environment.

The data:

	Yes	No
Support staff	9	32
Analysts	14	37
Executives	12	5

You're interested in whether employee classification has anything to do with attitudes about work environment. For step 1, instead of re-writing this question of interest, instead say whether the appropriate comparison is across columns, or across rows.

Step 2: State the null hypothesis.

Step 3: State the alternative hypothesis.

Step 4: What is the correct level of alpha, and which tails matter? Choose all statments that are correct.

Step 5: Which statistical test are you using?

Step 6: What is the value of the test statistic?

Step 6 continued: How many degrees of freedom in this test?

Step 7: What is the critical value for the test statistic?

Step 8: How does the test statistic compare to the critical value?

Step 9: Based on this comparison, do you accept or reject your null hypothesis?

Step 10: What do you conclude from this analysis?

Answer 1