Question

The following table gives the number of students (in thousands) graduating from college with degrees in several fields of study for seven countries:

Field of study	Canada	France	Germany	Italy	Japan	U.K.	U.S.
Social sciences, business, law	66	150	62	121	255	155	883
Science, mathematics, engineering	31	112	64	84	136	132	353
Arts and humanities	27	76	38	46	118	109	396
Education	21	41	19	15	40	15	172
Other	32	290	30	62	96	80	270

Find the marginal distribution of country ( ±±0.0001)

Canada	France	Germany	Italy	Japan	U.K.	U.S.

Find the marginal distribution of field of study ( ±±0.0001)

SsBL	SME	AH	Ed	Other

Answer 1

1)

dividing each value with total of 4597 in column total

Canada	France	Germany	Italy	Japan	U.K.	U.S.
0.0385	0.1455	0.0463	0.0714	0.1403	0.1068	0.4512

2)

dividing each value with total of 4597 inrow total

marginal distribution of field of study

SsBL	SME	AH	Ed	Other
0.3681	0.1984	0.1762	0.0703	0.1871