The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked was “What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next 10 years?” Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender: Opinion Female Male Almost no chance 138 114 Some chance but probably not 134 165 A 50-50 chance 467 512 A good chance 736 718 Almost certain 1187 746
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked was “What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next 10 years?” Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender: Opinion Female Male Almost no chance 138 114 Some chance but probably not 134 165 A 50-50 chance 467 512 A good chance 736 718 Almost certain 1187 746
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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked was “What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next 10 years?” Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender:
Opinion | Female | Male |
---|---|---|
Almost no chance | 138 | 114 |
Some chance but probably not | 134 | 165 |
A 50-50 chance | 467 | 512 |
A good chance | 736 | 718 |
Almost certain | 1187 | 746 |
- How many individuals are described in this table?
- How many females were among the respondents?
- The percent of females among the respondents was about %.
- Your percent from the previous exercise is part of
- the marginal distribution of sex.
- the conditional distribution of sex among adolescents with a given opinion.
- the marginal distribution of opinion about marriage.
- What percent of females thought that they were almost certain to be married in the next 10 years?
% - Your percent from the previous exercise is part of
- the conditional distribution of sex among those who thought they were almost certain to be married.
- the marginal distribution of opinion about marriage.
- the conditional distribution of opinion about marriage among women.
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