Answer to Question #84319 in Statistics and Probability for christopher monroe

Question

We want to examine the relationship between sex offenders and victims of violent crime. In the following table, U.S. Department of Justice 2011 data for the sex of offenders and the sex of victims are reported.

Sex of Offender Sex of Offender
Sex of Victim Male Female
Male 3760 450
Female 1590 140


a. Treating sex of offender as the independent variable, how many errors of predictions will be made if the independent variable is ignored?

b. How many fewer errors will be made if the independent variable is taken into account? Answer: Considering the sex of the offender to predict sex of the victim, we would make
errors. For male offenders, we would make
errors and for the female offenders, we would make
errors.

c. Calculate lambda. Our calculated lambda is
. Information about sex of the offender reduces our error in predicting the sex of the victim by
%.

Answer 1

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