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The EPA claims that fluoride in children's drinking water should be at a mean level of less than 1.2 ppm, or parts per million, to reduce the number of dental cavities. Identify the Type I error. (Points : 1)       
      
      
      

 

Medical researchers reviewing the risk of death for elderly patients taking dementia drugs found the following data. Assume a .05 significance level for testing the claim that the proportions are not equal. Also, assume the two simple random samples are independent and that the conditions np ≥ 5 and nq ≥ 5 are satisfied.

 

 
Dementia Drugs
Placebo
Number of patients
500
450
Total deaths
23
12


 
Find the z test statistic. Give your answer with two decimals, e.g., 9.87 . (Points : 0.5)       
      
      
      

 

Use a .05 significance level and the observed frequencies of 144 drownings at the beaches of a randomly selected coastal state to test the claim that the number of drownings for each month is equally likely.

 

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1
3
2
7
14
20
37
33
16
6
2
3


 
Do you reject the null hypothesis, at the .05 significance level? Enter Y for yes (reject), N for no (fail to reject). (Points : 0.5)       

 
 
Immune Modulator Cream
 
 
Cure
No Cure
Topical Steroid
Cure
25
11
Cream
No Cure
42
22

      
 

 

 

Use the following technology display from a Two-Way ANOVA to answer this question. Biologists studying habitat use in Lepidopteran moths measured the number of savannah moths found at three randomly selected prairie sites with two potential habitat interferences (expansion of row crops and grazing). Use a .05 significance level.

 

Source
Df
SS
MS
F
P
Site
2
.1905
.0952
.0381
.9627
Habitat
1
304.0238
304.0238
121.6095
.0000
Site*Habitat
2
.1905
.0952
.0381
.9627


 
What is the value of the F test statistic for the site effect? (Points : 0.5)       [removed]

 

 

 

 

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