When Testing a Null Hypothesis About a Single Population Mean

question 12

Multiple Choice

When testing a null hypothesis about a single population mean and the population standard deviation is unknown, if the sample size is less than 30, one compares the computed test statistic for significance with a value from the ________ distribution.

• A) t
• B) z
• C) binomial
• D) hypergeometric

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Definitions:

Key Comparisons

Operations in algorithms that involve comparing elements to sort them or determine their uniqueness.

List

A data structure that organizes items sequentially, with each item having a position and possibly links to previous and next items.

Binary Search

A search algorithm that finds the position of a target value within a sorted array by repeatedly dividing in half the portion of the list that could contain the target value.