Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
4th Edition
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Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6.2, Problem 16E
A scientist computes a 90% confidence interval to be (4.38, 6.02). Using the same data, she also computes a 95% confidence interval to be (4.22, 6.18), and a 99% confidence interval to be (3.91, 6.49). Now she wants to test H0: μ =4 versus H1 : μ ≠ 4. Regarding the P-value, which one of the following statements is true?
- i. P > 0.10
- ii. 0.05 < P <0.10
- iii. 0.01 < P < 0.05
- iv. P < 0.01
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