I an Alternate Hypothesis Is a Statement About a Population

question 83

Multiple Choice

i. An alternate hypothesis is a statement about a population parameter that is accepted when the
Null hypothesis is rejected.
ii. The level of significance is the risk we assume of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually
True.
iii. There is only one level of significance that is applied to all studies involving sampling.

• A) (i), (ii), and (iii) are all correct statements.
• B) (i) is a correct statement but not (ii) or (iii).
• C) (i) and (iii) are correct statements but not (ii).
• D) (i) and (ii) are correct statements but not (iii).
• E) (i), (ii), and (iii) are all false statements.

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