Explain Why a Movement from a Point Inside a Production

question 34

Essay

Explain why a movement from a point inside a production possibilities frontier to the production possibilities frontier is described as a free lunch and a movement along a production possibilities frontier is described as a tradeoff.

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Definitions:

Type II Error

Failing to detect an effect or difference that exists because the null hypothesis was incorrectly accepted.

α

Alpha (α) is a threshold value used in hypothesis testing to determine the significance level at which the null hypothesis can be rejected.

Effect Size

A numeric evaluation of the size of the effect observed in an experiment.

T-statistic

A type of statistic used in hypothesis testing, derived from the standardized difference between a sample statistic and its hypothesized population value, divided by the standard error.