A professor at the University of Iowa was interested in evaluating whether domestic dispute calls were more dangerous to officers than other types of calls. Collecting information on call for service and whether the call resulted in officer injury. The data is displayed in the contingency table below.
Type of Call
Domestic Dispute
Not a Domestic Dispute
Officer Injury
No
128
675
Yes
245
786
Using the information to complete Table 1 and answer the questions below.
Table 1. Chi-square (4 points, 1 per column)
Category
Observed
Expected
O–E
(O–E)2
(O–E)2/E
No, Domestic
No, Not Domestic
Yes, Domestic
Yes, Not Domestic
What is the scale of measurement of the dependent variable?
What is the value for the chi-square?
Using an alpha level of 0.05, what is the critical value?
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