Offenders Placed on Intensive Supervision Probation Have Lower Recidivism Rates

question 66

True/False

Offenders placed on Intensive Supervision Probation have lower recidivism rates than those offenders placed on traditional probation.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

A statement in statistics that proposes there is no significance difference or effect, generally serving as the default or starting assumption in hypothesis testing.

Alpha

The threshold for significance in statistical testing, typically set at 0.05, below which the null hypothesis is rejected.

T-test

A statistical test used to compare the means of two groups, often employed to determine if there are significant differences between them.

Alpha

In statistics, alpha refers to the probability of making a Type I error, which is the incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis.