Because the U

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Essay

Because the U.S.economy failed to snap back from a mild recession in 2001, the Fed pushed the federal funds rate down to 1 percent.What effect did this have on the economy?

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistics that suggests no significant difference or effect; it serves as a default assumption to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical test that analyzes the differences among three or more group means by comparing within-group variance to between-group variance.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution of data where most values cluster around a central mean value, with the distribution tapering off symmetrically towards both extremes.

Weighted Average

An average whereby each quantity to be averaged is assigned a weight, reflecting its importance or frequency relative to other quantities.