You Are Interested in Beginning a Small Business Enterprise and One

question 54

Short Answer

You are interested in beginning a small business enterprise and one aspect of your research is to look at the loan record for stockholders of small business corporations.A14-year record of net loans from stockholders of small business corporations (in billions of dollars)are as follows: 1.6,-0.2,1.0,1.4,-0.1,0.6,1.5,0.9,2.2,1.3,1.9,1.9,2.8,and 5.0.
Calculate the mean.
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Definitions:

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive" in statistical testing.

Measurement Error

Refers to the difference between the true value of a measurement and the recorded value due to various factors such as instrument error or human error.

T-tests

Statistical tests used to compare the means of two groups and determine if they are significantly different from each other.

Statistically Different

Being statistically different means that observed differences between groups or variables in a study are unlikely to have occurred by chance, according to statistical analysis. This distinction supports the idea that the observed effects reflect true differences in the populations being studied.