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2. You would like to investigate if democratic voting states in the US are more affected by COVID-19 than republican voting states. You have data for the 50 states and the District of Colombia of the following variables: - state - name of the state; - idstate - state abbreviation; - popn - cstimate of population in 2019; - density - estimate of population density (in inhabitants per km2 ); - democrat - number of votes for the democratic nominee; - republican - number of votes for the republican nominee; - positive - cumulative number of positive tests; - negative - cumulative number of negative tests; - dead - cumulative number of deaths of COVID-19. - winner - winner of the state, either democrat or republican. One can consider a binomial logit model for the proportion of the number of deaths over the total number of positive cases in a state. The estimated model has this proportion as a dependent variable and density and winner as independent variables. (c) Test if the winner variable influences the mortality rate. Give an estimate of the ratio of the odds for democrats vs. republicans as well as a confidence interval for it based on the ML. ( 6 points)