When a survey question asked, \"Do you believe in heaven?\" and \"Do you believe

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When a survey question asked, "Do you believe in heaven?" and "Do you believe in hell?, 831 subjects answered "yes" to both questions, 162 answered "no" to both, 121 answered "yes" to heaven but "no" to hell, and 3 answered "no" to heaven but "yes" to hell. Complete parts a through e below. a. Explain how we could regard either variable (opinion about heaven, opinion about hell) as a response variable. A. Each variable could be the outcome of interest, and the distribution of responses across the entire population could be studied. B. Each variable could be used to explain the results of the other variable C. Each variable could be the outcome of interest, and how they depend on a third variable could be studied. D. Each variable could be the outcome of interest, and how it depends on the other could be studied.

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The responses (counted data) which is represented in each cell is classified in two categories-'Do you believe in heaven?' and 'Do you believe in hell?'. Therefore, each variable could be the outcome of interest. Now, if one is interested to know whether, believing in heaven is independent of believeing in hell, it could also be studied from the table. Ans>D

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