Suppose a young child believes in the Easter Bunny and will continue to do so un

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Suppose a young child believes in the Easter Bunny and will continue to do so until she sees She would test the following hypotheses. H_0: The Easter Bunny is real. H_A: The Easter Bunny is not real. Which of the following describes a Type I error? a) Concluding the Easter Bunny is real when, in reality, it is real. b) Concluding the Easter Bunny is real when, in reality, it is not real. c) Concluding the Easter Bunny is not real when, in reality, it is real. d) Concluding the Easter Bunny is not real when, in reality, it is not real.

Explanation / Answer

In statistical hypothesis testing, a typeI error is the incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis (a "false positive"), while a type II error is incorrectly retaining a false null hypothesis (a "false negative").

Hence option c is answer.

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