2. Does the idea known as "home-field advantage" (IIFA) actually exist? IIFA suggests that in a given sport, the home te
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2. Does the idea known as "home-field advantage" (IIFA) actually exist? IIFA suggests that in a given sport, the home team will beat the away team more often than half the time. Several theories have been offered for why this might occur: familiarity with your arena/playing space, support of the home crowd, referocing that favors the home team, cte. To explore HIFA, researchers looked at 1000 random NFL games in the last 40 years and found that in 574 cases, the home team won, a. Draw a conclusion about the idea of HFA using an approximato test with a = 0.02, and show you have met the conditions necessary for using this test. that b. After publication of the findings from part a, you read on an NFL blog that "Data show the existence of HFA, likely the result of biased refereeing." Respond to this claim from a statistical perspective