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A Hypothesis Regarding the Weight of Newborn Infants at a Community

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A hypothesis regarding the weight of newborn infants at a community hospital is that the mean is 6.6 pounds. A sample of seven infants is randomly selected and their weights at birth are recorded as 9.0,7.3,6.0,8.8,6.8,8.4,and 6.6 pounds. What is the sample standard deviation?


Definitions:

Rejection

In statistical hypothesis testing, the decision to refuse the null hypothesis when it is false.

P < .05

Indicates that the probability of the observed data (or something more extreme) assuming the null hypothesis is true is less than 5%, often used as a threshold for statistical significance.

Critical Value

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Null Hypothesis

In hypothesis testing, it's the presumption that no significant difference exists as a result of the experiment or intervention.

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