Suppose You Have Observed a Sample Mean and You Want

question 22

Multiple Choice

Suppose you have observed a sample mean and you want to know how likely it is that you would observe these results by chance given nothing interesting was going on in the population regarding its mean.Which of the following would help you determine that?

• A)Find the standard score corresponding to your sample mean and interpret it.
• B)Find the percentage of time you would expect to see results at least this large, in the case where there is nothing interesting happening in the population.
• C)Find the range of reasonable values for sample means of this size, given nothing interesting is going on in the population, and see if your sample mean is in that range or not.
• D)All of the above.

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