A Homeowner Insured a House for $150,000 for One Year

question 46

Short Answer

A homeowner insured a house for $150,000 for one year at a premium rate of $5.00 per thousand. The homeowner canceled the policy during the year. The insurance company has a penalty of 15% for short-rate refunds. Compute the amount of the penalty.​

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true, often denoted by alpha and used in statistical hypothesis testing.

Fisher's Exact

A test for determining statistical significance in contingency table analysis, specifically designed for small sample sizes.

Nonparametric Tests

Statistical tests that are not based on the assumption that the data follows a particular distribution, used especially for ordinal or nominal data.

Likelihood

Likelihood in statistical analysis is the probability that a particular set of observations would occur given a specific model.