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A sports researcher is interested in determining if there is a relationship between the type of sport and type of team winning (home team versus visiting team) . A random sample of 526 games is selected and the results are
Given below. Calculate the chi-square test statistic χ χ2\chi ^ { 2 }
to test the claim that the type of team winning is
Independent of the sport.  Football  Basketball  Soccer  Baseball  Home team wins 391562583 Visiting team wins 31981975\begin{array} { l | c c c c } & \text { Football } & \text { Basketball } & \text { Soccer } & \text { Baseball } \\\hline \text { Home team wins } & 39 & 156 & 25 & 83 \\\text { Visiting team wins } & 31 & 98 & 19 & 75\end{array}


A) 3.290
B) 2.919
C) 5.391
D) 4.192

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