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A graduate student is preparing to submit his findings of a secondary data analyses on survey data collected from prison inmates. One area this researcher has an interest in pursuing is to uncover significant differences among the proportions of subjects (categorized by the type of crime committed) falling into different categories of how fair they perceive the prison system to be (a 4 category scale ranging from "very unfair" to "very fair").
The researcher, who has recently completed a statistics course, has decided to use a chi square test statistic as the primary measure to test the hypothesis. The researcher reports an overall chi-square test statistic, its associated degrees of freedom and p-value. The research also provides the gamma statistic as evidence of the association between two the two variables analyzed: type of crime and degree of perceived fairness.
Should any additional information be discussed that identifies the substantive pattern of association between the categories of the two variables?
Yes, additional information would be beneficial.
No, the information provided is adequate.
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