7.1 Table 7.20 depicts data that was obtained from the 1994 administration of the General Social Survey (GSS) on respondents’ sex, level of fundamentalism, and whether they favor or oppose the death penalty for murder. Find the most parsimonious log-linear model for this data and interpret its parameters.

a. Describe the process you went through to determine the best fitting, most parsimonious model.

b. What types of associations exist among the variables, according to the most parsimonious model?

c. Demonstrate how the fitted values (or parameter estimates) from the most parsimonious model can be used to obtain the odds ratios depicting the associations and interpret the values of these odds ratios.