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To test whether the proportion of share ownership between UK and Japanese executives is different, a researcher asked a sample of 334 UK and 116 Japanese business executives "Do you privately own shares in the stock market?" The contingency table below presents the survey results. Country of origin of business executives Own shares? UK Japan Yes 14 36 No 320 80 Based on the above information and assuming that the researcher decides to use the chi-square test for equality of proportions, the statistical decision is to ______. Use a 5% level of significance. a. reject the null hypothesis b. not reject the null hypothesis c. accept the alternative hypothesis d. accept the null hypothesis

          To test whether the proportion of share ownership between UK and Japanese executives is different, a researcher asked a sample of 334 UK and 116 Japanese business executives "Do you privately own shares in the stock market?" The contingency table below presents the survey results.
Country of origin of business executives
Own shares?
UK
Japan
Yes
14
36
No
320
80
Based on the above information and assuming that the researcher decides to use the chi-square test for equality of proportions, the statistical decision is to ______. Use a 5% level of significance.
a. reject the null hypothesis
b. not reject the null hypothesis
c. accept the alternative hypothesis
d. accept the null hypothesis

To test whether the proportion of share ownership between UK and Japanese executives is different, a researcher asked a sample of 334 UK and 116 Japanese business executives "Do you privately own shares in the stock market?" The contingency table below presents the survey results.
Country of origin of business executives
Own shares?
UK
Japan
Yes
14
36
No
320
80
Based on the above information and assuming that the researcher decides to use the chi-square test for equality of proportions, the statistical decision is to . Use a 5% level of significance.
a. reject the null hypothesis
b. not reject the null hypothesis
c. accept the alternative hypothesis
d. accept the null hypothesis

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