Question

A political scientist wanted to learn whether there is an association between the education level of registered voters and his or her political party affiliation. He randomly selected 46 registered voters and ran a Chi-square test of Independence and Homogeneity in SPSS. The following is the test result from SPSS:

Education * Party Crosstabulation
			Party		Total
			Democrat	Republican
Education	College	Count	9	12	21
		Expected Count	11.9	9.1	21.0
	Grade School	Count	7	2	9
		Expected Count	5.1	3.9	9.0
	High School	Count	10	6	16
		Expected Count	9.0	7.0	16.0
Total		Count	26	20	46
		Expected Count	26.0	20.0	46.0

Chi-Square Tests
	Value	df	Asymp. Sig. (2-sided)
Pearson Chi-Square	3.483a	2	.175
Likelihood Ratio	3.598	2	.165
N of Valid Cases	46
a. 1 cells (16.7%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 3.91.

Choose the appropriate null and alternative hypothesis

	a.	Ho: The education level and the party affiliation are uniformly distributed. H1: The education level and the party affiliation are NOT uniformly distributed.
	b.	None of the choices
	c.	Ho: The education level and the party affiliation are independent. H1: The education level and the party affiliation are NOT independent.
	d.	Ho: The education level and the party affiliation are associated. H1: The education level and the party affiliation are NOT associated.
	e.	Ho: The education level and the party affiliation are NOT independent. H1: The education level and the party affiliation are independent.

Answer 1