A patient named Don Thump has diagnosed with acute foot-in-mouth disease and was

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A patient named Don Thump has diagnosed with acute foot-in-mouth disease and was prescribed a cream. Being the skeptic that he is, Don didn't believe that the cream would help his symptoms even though the researcher of this disease claims it will make a significant improvement. However after a couple of months of application Don decides that the cream is working since he is sticking his foot in his mouth less often.  

Write the hypotheses in words for Don’s skeptical position when he started applying the cream.

Which hypothesis has Don decided to support?

What is a Type 1 Error in this context?

What is a Type 2 Error in this context?

Explanation / Answer

H0 : cream has no significant effect on acute foot-in-mouth disease

against H1 : Significant improvement has been shown in acute foot-in-mouth disease after using the cream.

In this context,

Type 1 Error= It has been concluded after hypothesis testing that significant improvement has been shown in acute foot-in-mouth disease after using the cream when in reality the Cream has no significant effect on acute foot-in-mouth disease,

Type 2 Error = It has been concluded after hypothesis testing that the Cream has no significant effect on acute foot-in-mouth disease when in reality ignificant improvement has been shown in acute foot-in-mouth disease after using the cream.

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