Provide an Appropriate Response

question 17

Multiple Choice

Provide an appropriate response.
-What effect will an outlier have on a confidence interval that is based on a small sample size?

• A) The confidence interval will be wider than an interval without the outlier.
• B) The interval will be smaller than an interval without the outlier.
• C) The interval will be the same with or without the outlier.
• D) The interval will reveal exclusionary data.

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Definitions:

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a test statistic that determine the threshold for rejecting a null hypothesis.

Two-Tailed

Two-Tailed tests in statistics are used to determine if there is either a positive or negative effect, and the significance is checked in both directions of the distribution.

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a test statistic that define regions where the null hypothesis can be rejected, indicating statistical significance.

Two-Tailed

A statistical test where the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is either greater or less than a certain range of values.