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In this part . . .


                                          ave you ever wondered if the percentage of M&M’S
                                     Hof each color is the same in every bag? Or whether
                                     someone’s vote in an election is related to gender? Have
                                     you ever wondered if banks really have a case for denying
                                     loans based on a low credit score? This part answers all
                                     those questions and more using the Chi-square distribu-
                                     tion. In particular, you get to use Chi-square to test for
                                     independence and to run goodness-of-fit tests.




































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