1 - 2 of 3 ID: MST.FET.HT.CHT.01.0010A April is a statistics student who has ext

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1 - 2 of 3 ID: MST.FET.HT.CHT.01.0010A April is a statistics student who has extensive computer programming skills. She programs a random-number generator that produces numbers that follow the normal distribution with mean ? = 18 and standard deviation ? = 3. April's friend Augustus does not know that the population mean is 18. He knows that April's favorite number is 25, and decides to conduct a hypothesis test with the following hypotheses: Ho: ? 25 ??: 25 The result of the test is that Augustus does not reject the null hypothesis. Augustus has: O committed a Type I error O committed a Type II error O not committed a Type I error or Type II error O committed both a Type I error and a Type II error

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Type I and type II errors. ... In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error is the rejection of a true null hypothesis (also known as a "false positive" finding), while atype II error is failing to reject a false null hypothesis (also known as a "false negative" finding).

Answer :- [ committed type 1 error ]

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