You Have a Decision to Invest $10,000 in Any of Four

question 38

Multiple Choice

You have a decision to invest $10,000 in any of four different companies. You estimate the probabilities that the economy will be favourable or unfavourable and you estimate the percent returns over the next year. What is the expected value for Company 1?

• A) 9.20%
• B) 9%
• C) 9.6%
• D) 9.4%

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A critical value is a point on a statistical distribution that represents a cutoff used to determine the likelihood of observing a statistic as extreme as, or more extreme than, the observed value.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical test used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent (unrelated) groups based on one independent variable.

F-ratio

A statistical measure used in analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine the degree of variation between sample means in comparison to variation within the samples.

Critical Value

A point on the test distribution that is compared to the test statistic to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.