Conduct a test of independence to determine whether health insurance coverage is independent of the size of the company. What is the -value? Compute the value of the  test statistic (to 2 decimals).

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Health insurance benefits vary by the size of the company (the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation website, June 23, 2016). The sample data below show the number of companies providing health insurance for small, medium, and large companies. For the purposes of this study, small companies are companies that have fewer than  employees. Medium-sized companies have  to  employees, and large companies have  or more employees. The questionnaire sent to  employees asked whether or not the employee had health insurance and then asked the enployee to indicate the size of the company.

 

  Health Insurance
  Size of Company Yes No Total  
  Small 38 12 50  
  Medium 65 10 75  
  Large 86 14 100  

 

a. Conduct a test of independence to determine whether health insurance coverage is independent of the size of the company. What is the -value?

Compute the value of the  test statistic (to 2 decimals).

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