Question

A recent debate about where in the United States skiers believe the skiing is best prompted the following survey. Test to see if the best ski area is independent of the level of the skier. (Use a significance level of 0.05.) Beginner Intermediate Advanced 39 29 U.S. Ski Area Tahoe Utah Colorado 8 8 29 38 What distribution is used for this test?

Answer 1

Chi-square distribution

Explanation:

We want to investigate that whether best ski area is independent of skier level or not so this situation leads to test of independence. For investigating independence of two variable we usually use chi-square distribution.

Thus, for conducting the test for investigating the independence between best ski area and skier level we use chi-square distribution.