Please, answer the question: if there is no association between the categorical variables, which of the following is true?
a) The observed counts in the two-way table should be close to the expected points.
b) The observed counts in the two-way table will be different from the expected points.
c) The chi-square statistic will have a large value and the observed counts in a two-way table will be very different from the expected points.
d) The chi-square statistic will have a large value.
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Best Answer
The observed counts in the two-way table should be close to the expected points. (And the chi-square value will decrease to zero.)
Thus, the answer (a) is correct.