Statistics for Business & Economics
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781285528830
Author: David R. Anderson
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Chapter 9.3, Problem 18E
The average annual total return for U.S. Diversified Equity mutual funds from 1999 to 2003 was 4.1% (BusinessWeek, January 26, 2004). A researcher would like to conduct a hypothesis test to see whether the returns for mid-cap growth funds over the same period are significantly different from the average for U.S. Diversified Equity funds.
- a. Formulate the hypotheses that can be used to determine whether the
mean annual return for mid-cap growth funds differ from the mean for U.S. Diversified Equity funds. - b. A sample of 40 mid-cap growth funds provides a mean return of
- c. At α = .05, what is your conclusion?
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