Which of the Following Is True Regarding Elderly African-American Women

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true regarding elderly African-American women in the United States?

• A) Most elderly African-American women live with other members of their family.
• B) Most elderly African-American women are generally well cared for in their older years.
• C) More elderly African-American women experience some degree of poverty than do elderly women from other ethnic groups.
• D) Fewer elderly African-American women develop significant health problems than do elderly women from other ethnic groups.

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

The average value of a set of characteristics (numbers) from a subset of a population, used to estimate the population mean.

Null Hypothesis

The default position in statistical hypothesis testing that assumes no relationship or effect between the variables being studied.

P-value

The likelihood of getting test outcomes that are as significant as or more so than the ones actually seen, presuming the null hypothesis is true.

Level of Significance

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when the hypothesis is true; often represented by alpha (α).