If, as a Result of a Hypothesis Test, You Reject

question 61

Multiple Choice

If, as a result of a hypothesis test, you reject the null hypothesis when it is false, then you have
Committed

• A) a Type II error.
• B) a Type I error.
• C) no error.
• D) an acceptance error.

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Definitions:

Original Data Set

The initial collection of data or observations before any processing or analysis has been conducted.

Trimmed Mean

A measure of central tendency calculated by removing a certain percentage of the smallest and largest values from a data set before calculating the mean of the remaining data.

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A method for estimating the uncertainty of a statistic by resampling the original data and calculating the statistic across these samples to form an interval.

Bootstrap Standard Error

A method for estimating the standard error of a statistic by resampling with replacement from the original dataset and computing the statistic over many resamples.