You Are Considering Testing a New Drug That Is Supposed

question 63

Multiple Choice

You are considering testing a new drug that is supposed to facilitate learning in mentally retarded children. Because there is relatively little known about the drug, you plan to use a nondirectional alternative hypothesis. Since your resources are limited, you can test only 15 subjects. The subjects will be run in a repeated measures design and the data will be analyzed with the sign test, using a = 0.05_{2 tail}. If the drug has a medium effect on learning such that P _real = 0.70, what is the probability you will detect the effect when doing your experiment.

• A) 0.2968
• B) 0.0176
• C) 0.2969
• D) 0.0352

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