The Commissioner of Health in New York State Wanted to Study

question 28

Short Answer

The Commissioner of Health in New York State wanted to study malpractice litigation in New York.A sample of 31 thousand medical records was drawn from a population of 2.7 million patients who were discharged during 2010.Using the information obtained from the sample to predict population characteristics with respect to malpractice litigation is an example of .

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A limit in hypothesis testing that sets the dividing line between the area where the null hypothesis is accepted and the area where it is rejected.

Hypotheses

Proposed explanations or predictions that are based on limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

Alpha

Typically refers to the level of significance in statistical hypothesis testing, representing the likelihood of rejecting a true null hypothesis.

T-statistic

A type of statistic used in hypothesis testing, calculated to determine the significance of certain variables or differences between means.