Question

You wonder if weather (rain, cloudy or sunny) makes a difference on mood (happy or not). To determine this, you sample the moods of 200 people on a sunny day, 200 people on a rainy day and 200 people on a cloudy day and record whether they were happy or not. You then want to do a chi square test on this data. What are the degrees of freedom?

Answer 1

Answer:

2

Step-by-step explanation:

Drawing a table to show the different weather and mood options :

The degree of freedom :

________ WEATHER ________

__________Rain ____ sunny _____ cloudy

Happy

|

Not happy

Here, we have a contingency table formatted in rows and columns

The columns = 3

The rows = 2

Degree of freedom :

(rows - 1) * ( columns - 1)

(2 - 1) * (3 - 1)

1 * 2

= 2

The degree of freedom = 2