A Sports Statistician Is Interested in Determining If There Is $\chi _ { 0 } ^ { 2 }$

Multiple Choice

A sports statistician is interested in determining if there is a relationship between the number of home team and visiting team losses and different sports. A random sample of 526 games is selected and the results are given below. Find the critical value $\chi _ { 0 } ^ { 2 }$ to test the claim that the number of home team and visiting team losses is independent of the sport. Use $\alpha = 0.01$ .
$\begin{array} { l | c c c c } & \text { Football } & \text { Basketball } & \text { Soccer } & \text { Baseball } \\\hline \text { Home team losses } & 39 & 156 & 25 & 83 \\\text { Visiting team losses } & 31 & 98 & 19 & 75\end{array}$

A) 11.345
B) 12.838
C) 7.815
D) 9.348