QUESTION 6 Dr. Anderson is a mammalogist who studies deer mice. He is trying to

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QUESTION 6 Dr. Anderson is a mammalogist who studies deer mice. He is trying to improve his success in trapping female deer mice He conducts a study where he uses peanut butter vs. nutella as bait in his traps. The data he collects is shown in the table below. He is going to use a Chi-Squared test to anlayze his results. How many degrees of freedom should he use for the test? IMPORTANT NOTE: The video has the wrong formula (the reading has the correct one) for degrees of freedom for Chi-Squared - the video had an addition sign instead of multiplication sign. The correct formula is: df-(#rows-1 )*(#columns-1) Trap with Peanut Butter Trap with Nutella Total Females 46 Males 37 83 120 Total 83 154 237 weand sumit Click Saue All Auswers to save all answers

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Degree of freedom is one.

It is calculated as: df = n-1

n is the no. Of individuals, here they are 2 namely male and female

Thus, df = 2-1 = 1

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