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A Woodchuck Tries to Crack a Walnut Shell in Two

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A woodchuck tries to crack a walnut shell in two different ways--with his paws and with his teeth.The last method worked and the first did not; hence,the woodchuck will be more likely to rely on his teeth for splitting the next nut.This observation illustrates the:


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Type I Error

A Type I error occurs when a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected.

Rejecting

The act of not accepting or dismissing a statistical hypothesis based on the analysis of data.

Level of Significance

The threshold probability used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood of occurrence of an event, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

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