Applied statistics (CPH: BD)

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Analysis of qualitative data

Literature

[A] Chapter 8 except Section 8.4.

Lecture material

We first consider purely qualitative (non-ordinal) data presented in the following pdf files:

• Contingency tables and independence
• Chi-squared test
• Chi-squared test -- residuals
• Chi-squared test in R

Then we consider ordinal data presented in the slides/notes (same content in different formats):

• Notes (pdf)
• Slides (html)

Exercises

1. Exercise 8.5 - Use R as a calculator.
2. Exercise 8.7 - Use R as a calculator.
   • Hint: qdist("chisq", 0.95, df).
3. Exercise 8.16 (a)-(b)
4. The following is the beginning of an article in Politiken in 2007 (Google translation further below):

Assume for convenience that the number of interviewed people is 1000 in both 2005 and 2007 (and not 1001 as written in the article).

• Make (by hand) a table with the observed counts of answers for the four combinations of Tryg/Utryg (sense of safety) and 2005/2007.
• Calculate the expected counts, if there is no dependence between year and sense of safety by air travel.
• Calculate the χ^2 test statistic.

Google translation:

We are more afraid of flying

Flight is no longer considered as the safest mode of transport. Confidence in flight engineers has dropped. People now feel most comfortable in trains and ferries.

Three accidents SAS flights in September and October has made Danes more afraid of flying. A new study shows that trains and ferries has overtaken the plane, when it comes to the safest form of transport.

The Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) in September and October with the market research Epinion asked 1001 people about their perception of transport.

83 percent feel confident to fly. This is less than in 2005, when 86 percent felt safe in flight.