An audiologist is concerned about her patients' use of their prescribed hearing aids. She decides to conduct an experiment. She checks weekly with each of her patients and records whether or not he or she has been using his or her hearing aid and whether or not he or she has been functioning well, moderately well, or poorly. She finds that 14 of the 33 patients who have been using their hearing aids are functioning well, 12 are functioning moderately well, and the remaining seven patients have been doing poorly. She is interested in knowing whether level of functioning depends on hearing aid use. What frequency test would you choose to answer the question?

What will be an ideal response?


Correct Answer:
Chi-square test for independence

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