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Selected Papers in School Finance 1995
Student-Level School Resource Measures

Figure 3. Win or loss at supreme court level and percentage change in coefficient of variation

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                                  Percentage Change in
                                Coefficient of Variation
                    Count          Decrease |                Row
                    Exp Val         or Low  |  Large        Total
	                           Increase | Increase     
                    ________________________|____________________
                    Won          |     11   |       3  |       14
                                 |    7.9   |     6.1  |     46.7%
     Legal                       |__________|__________| 
     Categories     Lost         |      6   |      10  |       16
                                 |    9.1   |     6.9  |     53.3%
                                 |__________|__________| 
                    Column             17          19          30
                    Total            56.7%       43.3%      100.0%
                                                   Approximate
       Statistic                  Value           Significance
-----------------------          -------          ------------
Contingency Coefficient          0.38211            0.02353 *
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*/ Pearson chi-square probability




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