A Basketball Coach Taught Three Groups of Players to Shoot

question 3

Multiple Choice

A basketball coach taught three groups of players to shoot free throws, using a different method for each group. After six weeks of practice, she ranked all of the players according to their ability to make free throws. Which test should she use to analyze these data?

• A) Mann-Whitney U
• B) Kruskal-Wallis
• C) Friedman two-way by ranks
• D) Chi-square

Differentiate between different levels of confidence in confidence interval estimation.

Understand the concepts and application of hypothesis testing including identifying null and alternative hypotheses.

Interpret p-values and statistical significance in various contexts.

Distinguish between Type I and Type II errors in hypothesis testing.

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Definitions:

Feature Detectors

Nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of a stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement.

Absolute Threshold

The minimum stimulus intensity required to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time.

Adaptation Threshold

The limit to which an organism or a system can adapt to changes in conditions or stimuli.

Difference Threshold

The smallest amount of change in a stimulus that can be detected as different from the original stimulus.