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1. A prison administrator is interested in examining therelationships between the type of prison security (maximum, medium,and minimum) and the number of previous offenses committed by aninmate. He believes that maximum security prisons have inmates withmany prior offenses, medium security with not so many offenses, andminimum security with almost no prior offenses. He randomly selectseight new inmates from each of the three security levels andcompares the number of offenses for which they have ever beencharged.

a) What is the independent variable?             

b) What is the dependent variable?

c) What is the null hypothesis?

d) What is the research hypothesis?

e) Interpret the results.

MaximumMediumMinimum
842
642
433
562
354
761
632
932

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Part A and B Here the independent variable is the type of prison security and dependent variable is the number of previous offenses committed by an inmate The independent variable is a categorical ordinal variable and dependent variable is nominal variable Part CD Here given the significance    See Answer
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