The Construction of the T-Statistic for a One- and a Two-Sided

question 18

Multiple Choice

The construction of the t-statistic for a one- and a two-sided hypothesis

• A)depends on the critical value from the appropriate distribution.
• B)is the same.
• C)is different since the critical value must be 1.645 for the one-sided hypothesis, but 1.96 for the two-sided hypothesis (using a 5% probability for the Type I error).
• D)uses ±1.96 for the two-sided test, but only +1.96 for the one-sided test.

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Fundamental Attribution Error

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