Essentials Of Statistics For Business & Economics
9th Edition
ISBN: 9780357045435
Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 2.3, Problem 28E
The following observations are for two quantitative variables, x and y.
- a. Develop a crosstabulation for the data, with x as the row variable and y as the column variable. For x use classes of 10–29, 30–49, and so on; for y use classes of 40–59, 60–79, and so on.
- b. Compute the row percentages.
- c. Compute the column percentages.
- d. What is the relationship, if any, between x and y?
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