Suppose You Were Interested in the Effects of Therapy on Depression

question 44

Short Answer

Suppose you were interested in the effects of therapy on depression.
a. What would be your independent variable?
b. What would be your dependent variable?
c. How might you control extraneous variables?

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The error of rejecting H0 when it is true.

Type II Error

The error of accepting H0 when it is false.

Reject

In statistical hypothesis testing, to "reject" means to discard the null hypothesis in favor of the alternative hypothesis based on the evidence provided by the sample data.

Type I

A type of error in statistical hypothesis testing, occurring when the null hypothesis is wrongly rejected.