A. As a health policy expert, you are interested in knowingwhether men and women in the United States differ in the frequencythey visit doctors when sick. So you conduct a survey of 134 peopleand ask them how often they visit a doctor when they aresick.Ă‚Â Ă‚Â The results from this sample are as follows:
| Frequency visit doctor | |
Sex | Always | Sometimes | Never | Total |
Men | 13 | 41 | 27 | 81 |
Women | 24 | 19 | 10 | 53 |
Total | 37 | 60 | 37 | 134 |
Perform the appropriate hypothesis test, at alpha = .01, todetermine whether there is a relationship between sex and thefrequency with which individuals in the United States visitdoctors.Ă‚Â Ă‚Â You must show your hand calculations for thisproblem. Describe your hypotheses, results, and conclusion in abrief paragraph.Ă‚Â Ă‚Â If it is appropriate, you should alsodiscuss the strength of the relationship based upon a suitablemeasure.
B . Show in a table or explain in words what the crosstabulationfor your two variables from
Question above would look like if there were absolutely noassociation between the independent variable and the dependentvariable.
