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29. Cigarettes and Bladder Cancer. A study examined the relationship between the number of cigarettes smoked and various types of cancer.13 The relationship between bladder cancer and the number of cigarettes may involve a nonlinear component. The following data set is a random sample of U.S. states, along with the number of deaths from bladder cancer per 100,000 people and the number of cigarettes smoked in hundreds per capita. Use the rank correlation test to test for a relationship between the number of deaths from bladder cancer and the per capita number of cigarettes smoked, using level of significance .
State | Cigarettes per capita (100s) |
Deaths from bladder cancer per 100,000 people |
---|---|---|
Kansas | 21.84 | 2.91 |
Washington | 21.17 | 4.04 |
Oklahoma | 23.44 | 2.93 |
Maryland | 25.91 | 5.21 |
Texas | 20.08 | 2.94 |
Louisiana | 21.58 | 4.65 |
Massachusetts | 26.92 | 4.69 |
Rhode Island | 29.18 | 4.99 |
Florida | 28.27 | 4.46 |
Alaska | 30.34 | 3.46 |