FORESTRY
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS AND ECONOMICS
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Simon reads a newspaper report claiming that 12% of all adults in the US are left-handed. He wonders if this figure holds true at his college. Simon chooses an SRS of 100 students and 16 of them are left-handed. He performs a test of Ho:p = 0.12 versus Ha:=/= 0.12. The test yields a p-value of 0.2184. What conclusion would you make for a significance level of
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Since the p-value of 0.2184 >
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Since the p-value of 0.2184 >
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Since the p-value of 0.2184 <
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Since the p-value of 0.2184 <
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -If our statistical analysis shows that the significance level is below the cut-off value we have set (e.g., either 0.05 or 0.01), we reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis.
Detailed explanation-2: -The probability of committing a type I error (rejecting the null hypothesis when it is actually true) is called (alpha) the other name for this is the level of statistical significance.
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