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in a sample of 1702 companies from year 2000, there are 878 companies that pay a

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Question

in a sample of 1702 companies from year 2000, there are 878 companies that pay a stock dividend to its shareholders, there are 1253 companies that pay their CEO's over $1 million in total compensation, and there are 673 firms that pay a dividend and pay their CEO's over $1 million in total compensations. the following table describes this joint distribution

  dividend Not Dividend Total

over $1 million 673 205 878

Not over $1 million 580 244 824

Total 1253 449 1702

When testing the hypothesis (using 5% level of significance) that the compensation of the CEO and whether the company pays a dividend are independent,

a. what is the test statistic?

b. what is the critical value?

Explanation / Answer

2 = 8.586,     df = 1,     2/df = 8.59 ,         P(2 > 8.586) = 0.0034


expected values are displayed in italics

individual 2values are displayed in (parentheses)

Since p - value is lessthan 0.05, the company pays a dividend are independent


Dividend Not Dividend Over 1 million 673
646.38
( 1.10) 205
231.62
( 3.06) 878 Not over 1 million 580
606.62
( 1.17) 244
217.38
( 3.26) 824 1253 449 1702