A ______ Error May Be Characterized as ______

question 37

Multiple Choice

A ______ error may be characterized as ______.

• A) type I; saying an effect exists when it does not
• B) type II; rejecting a true null hypothesis
• C) type I; saying an effect does not exist when it does
• D) type II; rejecting a false null hypothesis

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Definitions:

Statistics

The study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

Hypotheses

Plural form of hypothesis, these are tentative explanations or predictions that can be tested through research and experimentation.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much values differ from the mean.

Modality

Modality in statistics refers to the number of peaks in the frequency distribution of a dataset.