Does it appear that baseball teams are effective

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Is the Home Field Advantage Independent of the Sport? Winning team data were col- lected for teams in different sports, with the results given in the accompanying table. Use a 0.10 significance level to test the claim that home>visitor wins are independent of the sport. Given that among the four sports included here, baseball is the only sport in which the home team can modify field dimensions to favor its own players, does it appear that baseball teams are effective in using this advantage?

	Basketball	Baseball	Hockey	Football
Home team wins	127	53	50	57
Visiting team wins	71	47	43	42

Based on data from "Predicting Professional Sports Game Outcomes from Intermediate Game Scores," by Copper, DeNeve, and Mosteller, Chance, Vol. 5, No. 3-4.

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