Farmers Concerned with the Affect of Snowfall Levels on Their

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Essay

Farmers concerned with the affect of snowfall levels on their crops found that there wasn't evidence of a decrease in crop growth.They based this conclusion on a test using α = 0.10.Would they have made the same decision at α = 0.05 and α = 0.01?

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