The Baker Family Is Faced with Two Possible States

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True/False

The Baker family is faced with two possible states.In state 1, they remain healthy and incur no medical expenses.In state 2, their medical expenses will be $8,000.There is a 30% chance that state 1 will occur and a 70% chance that state 2 will occur.An insurance company offers to pay all of their medical expenses for a premium of $6,000.From the Bakers' point of view, this is a fair insurance policy.True
Jill is a risk-averse expected-utility maximizer.Jack offers her the following bet: he will toss a coin and pay her $5 if it comes down heads, but if it comes down tails, Jill will have to pay him
$5.Even though heads and tails are equally likely, Jill will not take the bet.False

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Definitions:

Normal Approximation

A method used to approximate the distribution of sample statistics to a normal distribution, particularly useful for large sample sizes.

Alternative Hypothesis

The hypothesis that suggests there is an effect or difference, in contrast to the null hypothesis.

P-Value

The probability of observing a test statistic at least as extreme as the one observed, under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.

Sign Test

An approach that doesn't rely on parameter assumptions to check for differences in the median of paired samples.