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You have collected data on voters and their recent voting habits. You sample 174 Republicans, 167...

You have collected data on voters and their recent voting habits. You sample 174 Republicans, 167 Democrats, and 113 Independents (which you have determined to be a reasonable representation of the party-affiliation of voters in your region of interest). The resulting contingency table for your results is provided:

Party
Affiliation
Voted
   Yes        No    
Republican 69 105
Democrat 78 89
Independent 66 47



Construct the conditional distribution of the voting habits by party affiliation:

Party
Affiliation
Voted
Yes No
Republican
Democrat
Independent



For comparison purposes, calculate the relative frequency marginal distribution for voting habits:

Voted
Yes No



Though you do not need to answer it here, what is the association between voting habits and party affiliation?

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Answer #1

dividing each value by row total:

conditional distribution of the voting habits by party affiliation :

Yes No
Republican 0.3966 0.6034
Democrat 0.4671 0.5329
Independent 0.5841 0.4159

relative frequency marginal distribution for voting habits :

Yes No
total 0.4692 0.5308

there appear to be an association between voting habits and party affiliation

repulican is least likely to vote while independent category people are most likely to vote

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