Information Was Collected from Employee Records to Determine Whether There

question 6

Multiple Choice

Information was collected from employee records to determine whether there is an association
Between an employee's age and the number or workdays they miss. Excel results are summarized
Below:
From this printout you determine:

• A) when tested at the 2% level of significance, there is no relationship between an employee's age and the number of days of work absences.
• B) for each additional year of age, we can expect the number of days of absence to increase by 0.45 days.
• C) almost 53% of the variation in the number of absent days can be explained by the variation in the employees ages.
• D) when tested at the 2% level of significance, there is no relationship between an employee's age and the number of days of work absences; for each additional year of age,

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Definitions:

Gustav Fechner

A German scientist who founded psychophysics and proposed the Fechner's law, relating physical stimuli to the sensation of their intensity.

Correct Rejection

In signal detection theory, the decision to correctly identify the absence of a signal or stimulus.

Miss

To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with something; can also refer to feeling sadness from the absence or loss of someone or something.

False Alarm

An error in which a warning or alert is given, but no actual threat or danger exists.