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Chi-Square

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  1. Perform a chi-square to examine how grade_class relates to live_on_campus. What is the p-value? Is there a relationship?

  2. If there is a significant difference, examine standardized residuals and the observed/expected frequencies to determine what grade class is more or less likely to live on campus. Interpret the results.

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Read more about the chisq.test() function in the janitor package.

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Zach Tilton

Zach Tilton

March 10, 2022

Hi Dana, thanks for the great videos here. I have been using what I learned in this video a lot lately. However, I recently hit a roadblock when running a chi-square test on two variables in a data set I am working with. Both variables are factors, but one has a level or value I don't want to include in the analysis because it doesn't make sense and would bias my test. To explain, for this test I am looking at the relationship between evaluation report type and generic evaluation use, where report type has the levels "written", "oral", "both", or "none" (which is what I am attempting to filter out) and where generic use has the dichotomous levels of "yes" or "no".

When I run the following code, the "none" level still shows up in the tabyl output, despite the fact I seem to have successfully filtered that level from the original dataframe. This prevents the test from working, though it does show the residuals.

report_type_yes % filter(report_type != "none")

report_type_x_generic_use % tabyl(report_type, generic_use, show_na = FALSE) %>% janitor::chisq.test()

tidy(report_type_x_generic_use)

report_type_x_generic_use$stdres

report_type_x_generic_use$observed

report_type_x_generic_use$expected

Here are the outputs:

statistic p.value parameter method

NaN NaN 3 Pearson's Chi-squared test

(stdres) report_type no yes none NaN NaN written 4.264175 -4.264175 oral 1.489306 -1.489306 both -4.905978 4.905978 (observed) report_type no yes none 0 0 written 53 120 oral 10 23 both 33 235 (expected) report_type no yes none 0.000000 0.00000 written 35.037975 137.96203 oral 6.683544 26.31646 both 54.278481 213.72152

Any thoughts on what might be happening? I recognize this might be more of a data manipulation question, but related to this statistic, nonetheless. Let me know if anything isn't clear or you need more information. Many thanks in advance for responding to a long question.