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A study anticipates that subjects treated with Drug A will have substantial impr

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Question

A study anticipates that subjects treated with Drug A will have substantial improvements in their neuropathy symptoms. The researchers determine that a significance level of 5% and a power of 80% is appropriate for their test.

The hypotheses for the test are as follows:

H0:  Taking Drug A does not influence neuropathy symptoms.
H1:  Taking Drug A does influence neuropathy symptoms.

Suppose they gather a sample of size 30 and find a p-value of 0.06.

What should they conclude?

The researchers should conclude that they  sufficient evidence to support the claim that Drug A positively influences neuropathy symptoms (p  0.05).
(enter "have" or "lack" for the first blank, and enter "<" or ">" for second blank; no quotation marks)

What type of error might they be making?

The researchers might be making a type  error.
(enter: "1" or "2", no quotation marks)

Explanation / Answer

What should they conclude? answer is ( lack ,>)

The researchers should conclude that they lack sufficient evidence to support the claim that Drug A positively influences neuropathy symptoms (p > 0.05).

since p-value=0.06 is more than alpha=0.05, so we fail to reject H0 and conclude that Taking Drug A does not influence neuropathy symptoms.

What type of error might they be making? ( answer is 2)

The researchers might be making a type 2 error.
(enter: "1" or "2", no quotation marks)

type I error=reject H0| H0 is true

type II error =accept H0 | H0 is false

here researcher is accepting H0, so it might be making type II error