The Risk We Take in Rejecting a True Null Hypothesis

question 22

Multiple Choice

The risk we take in rejecting a true null hypothesis is called ______.

• A) significance or alpha ( α)
• B) assumption of null hypothesis
• C) statistical power
• D) type II error

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