ECONS 391 Midterm: ECON 375 Western Washington 375 Online Midterm, Winter 2015
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Please do not place your name anywhere on this exam. I will give partial credit to students who show work. This is a closed book, closed neighbors, and closed note exam. In many cases, the correct answer to a question will require a hypothesis test. When performing a hypothesis test, please list your null and alternative hypothesis, your test statistic, the critical value of the distribution, and your conclusions. Unless otherwise mentioned, all hypothesis tests should be performed at the 95% level of confidence. Partial credit will be given only if work is shown. The number of points each problem is worth appears in parenthesis. In this case, each observation is of a u. s. state. The labor force participation rate (lfpr) is for women in that state and the divorce rate (dr) are the percent of marriages in that state that end in divorce. Each of the following questions are based upon the population regression:
