Question

A research team investigates the potential association between hours of work and smoking. They want to see whether there is a difference in number of smokes per day between smokers who work about 40 hours per week and those who work 55 hours or more. If they were to use the hypothesis testing procedure for this research question, what would be the appropriate test statistic to use

Answer 1

chi-square

Explanation:

According to the given situation, Chi-square statistic would be considered for as we have to determine whether working hours and smoking are attached with each other or not.

To know whether working hours based on smoking or there is an important relationship between both- So Chi-square statistic would be used

Therefore the test that should be used is chi-square