What is the population under consideration?

What is the population under consideration?

What are the two variables under consideration?

Group the bivariate data for the variables “birth region” and “party” into a contingency table.

Find the conditional distributions of birth region by party and the marginal distribution of birth region.

Find the conditional distributions of party by birth region and the marginal distribution of the party.

Does an association exist between the variables “birth region” and “party” for the U.S. presidents? Explain your answer.

What percentage of presidents are republicans?

If no association existed between birth region and party, what percentage of presidents born in the south would be Republicans?

Assignment 2: Other Addictive Behaviors

In looking at the diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders, many clinicians and researchers believe that these criteria could be applied to behaviors outside of substance use to classify other addictive behaviors.

To this end, gambling disorder was added as a diagnostic classification in the DSM-5.

Imagine that you are on the next DSM revision committee. What addictive behavior (not including substance use or gambling) would you lobby to include as a diagnostic classification?

Explain your reasoning for including this addictive behavior. Use your textbook and the Argosy University online library resources to support your position.