Exercise #5

A political analyst wants to know whether the political slant of a newspaper affects the voting preference of its readers. A random sample of homes was selected where the liberal newspaper was delivered. A random sample of homes receiving the conservative newspaper was selected. The voting preference of each head of household was obtained and categorized as Republican, Democrat, or Other.

 

Choose the statistic you would use to test your hypothesis.

 

Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
Chi-Square Test of Independence
One-sample t-test
t-test for Independent Means