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Except for the population mean, μ, all the numbers in the t statistic formula come from the sample data. Explain your response.
A hypothesis test produces t = 2.00 for a sample of n = 16 scores. What is the value of r2? Explain your response.
A sample of n = 25 individuals is selected from a population with μ = 80, and a treatment is administered to the sample. Which set of sample characteristics is most likely to lead to a decision t
What is the effect of a large value for the estimated standard error? Explain your response.
Under what circumstances can a very small treatment effect be statistically significant? Explain your response.
What is the estimated standard error for a sample of n = 4 scores with a variance of s2 = 36? Explain your response.
If the lab technician takes 16 measurements and the variance of the measurements in the sample is 2.2, does this provide enough evidence to reject the claim that the lab technician's accuracy is wi
Compute the estimated d and r2 to measure the size of the treatment effect.
The national average for the verbal portion of the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is 507 (The World Almanac, 2006). The College Board periodically rescales the test scores such that
Optimization of measurement (numerical goal)--even when achieved--can undermine a system. What alternative to optimization of a numerical goal is likely to serve us better?
Use the steps of hypothesis testing. Sketch the distributions involved. Explain your answer to someone who is familiar with the Z test but is unfamiliar with the t test for a single sample
A researcher would like to examine the effects of humidity on eating behavior. It is known that laboratory rats normally eat an average of µ = 21 grams of food each day.
Explain why t distribution tend to be flatter and more spread out than the normal distribution.
Can the college conclude that the students in the new program are significantly different from the rest of the freshman class? Use a two-tailed test with a = .05.
In arguing against the death penalty, Amnesty International has pointed out supposed inequities, such as the many times a black person has been given the death penalty by an all-white jury.
An initial sampling survey to estimate the % of time that MRI equipment is idle between 8am and 8pm, found that the MRI was idle in 9 of the 120 observations.
Precisely (that is, using specific numbers) what does the central limit theorem tell us about the sampling distribution of sample means for samples of this size from this population?
In order to control costs, a company wishes to study the amount of money its sales forces spends entertaining clients. The following is a random sample of six entertainment expenses (dinner costs fo
The height os adults women in US are normally distributed. Let X bar > denote the mean height for random sample of 4 women. For sample size 4, which of the following is true.
A multiple regression equation is y = -8.5 + 0.964a + 8.104b, where ‘a' is a person's age, ‘b' is the person's body fat percentage, and ‘y' is the person's lean mass percentage. P
Which approach, naïve or exponential smoothing with alpha =.2, would have produced the greater accuracy had it been used for forecasting? Use a start forecast of 14 for the first Monday for exp
If its number is not a prime number, a second urn is selected from the remaining four and the experiment receives the total amount in the two urns selected. What is the probability that the experime
An urn contains ten balls numbered 1 through 10. Five balls are drawn at random and without replacement. Let A be the event that exactly two odd-numbered balls are drawn and they occur on odd-number
A random sample is selected from a normal population. The population mean is μ=60 and the population standard deviation is α=15. After a treatment is given to the members of the sample, the