Which of the Following Statements Is False

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is false?

• A) In the case of a Treasury note or Treasury bond offering, the stop-out yield determines the coupon of the bond and then all bidders pay the discounted value for the bond or note.
• B) All competitive bidders submit sealed bids in terms of yields and the amount of bonds they are willing to purchase.
• C) In the past, the Treasury has issued bonds with maturities of 30 years (often called long bonds) and 20 years.
• D) Noncompetitive bidders (usually individuals) just submit the amount of bonds they wish to purchase and are guaranteed to have their orders filled at the auction.

Understand the concept of matched pairs experiments and their importance in statistical analysis.

Identify when to use Student's t-distribution for hypothesis testing.

Perform hypothesis tests and construct confidence intervals for population means and variances.

Differentiate between independent and dependent (matched pairs) samples.

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