Before lending someone money, banks must decide whether they believe the applica

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Before lending someone money, banks must decide whether they believe the applicant will repay the loan. One strategy used is a point system. Loan officers assess information about the applicant, totaling points they award for the person's income level, credit history, current debt burden, and so on. The higher the point total, the more convinced the bank is that it's safe to make the loan. Any applicant with a lower point total than a certain cutoff score is denied a loan. We can think of this decision as a hypothesis test. Since the bank makes its profit from the interest collected on repaid loans, their null hypothesis is that the applicant will repay the loan and therefore should get the money. Only if the person's score falls below the minimum cutoff will the bank reject the null and deny the loan a) Whn a person defaults on a loan, which type of error did the bank make? OA. Type ll error O B. Type I error b) Which kind of error is it when the bank misses an opportunity to make a loan to someone who would have repaid it? 0 A. Type I error O B. Type ll error c) Suppose the bank decides to lower the cutoff score from 250 points to 200. Is that analogous to choosing a higher or lower value of for a hypothesis test? OA, higher alpha level O B. lower alpha level d) What impact does this change in the cutoff value have on the chance of each type of error? A. Increased Type I, decreased Type II O B. Decreased Type I, increased Type II C. Increased Type I, increased Type II 0 D. Decreased Type I, decreased Type II

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a) If a person defaults a loan then that means the bank has not rejected the false null hypothesis that the person will repay. Hence,

Type II error

b) Type I error

c) Lower alpha level

d) Decrease Type I; Increase Type II

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