One Way to Minimize or Avoid the Probability of a Type

question 10

Multiple Choice

One way to minimize or avoid the probability of a Type II error occurring is to:

• A)increase the power of the study by improving the design and increasing the number of subjects or participants.
• B)replicate or repeat the study using the same design and equipment but with different participants.
• C)use correlational statistics instead of inferential statistics.
• D)use the ANOVA technique rather than the t-test.

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Definitions:

Bootstrap Confidence Interval

A type of confidence interval calculated by resampling a dataset with replacement and estimating the desired statistic multiple times.

Bias

In statistics and research, bias refers to a systematic error that leads to incorrect results by favoring certain outcomes over others unintentionally.

Normal

Pertaining to or describing a type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable that has a symmetrical, bell-shaped curve known as the normal distribution.

Bootstrap Distribution

A resampling method used in statistics to estimate the distribution of a statistic by repeatedly sampling with replacement from the original data.