If There Are Externalities Present in a Market, Resources Are

question 257

True/False

If there are externalities present in a market, resources are allocated efficiently when marginal social cost equals marginal social benefit.

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Definitions:

Type II Error

Occurs in hypothesis testing when a false null hypothesis is not rejected, leading to the false conclusion that a difference or effect does not exist when it actually does.

Power

The probability that a statistical test will correctly reject a false null hypothesis; related to the capability to detect an effect if there is one.

Type II Error

The error that occurs when a statistical test fails to reject a false null hypothesis.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, or "false positive," often denoted by alpha (α).