Problem 1BSC M and MS and Aspirin A package label includes a claim that the mean weight of the M and MS is 0.8535 g, and another package label includes the claim that the mean amount of aspirin in Bayer tablets is 325 mg. Which has more serious implications: rejection of the M and M claim or rejection of the aspirin claim? Is it wise to use the same significance level for hypothesis tests of both claims?
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Calculating Power Consider a hypothesis test of the claim that the MicroSort method of gender selection is effective in increasing the likelihood of having a baby girl, so that the claim is p > 0.5 . Assume that a significance level of \(\alpha=0.05 \) is used, and the sample is a simple random sample of size n = 64.
a. Assuming that the true population proportion is 0.65, find the power of the test, which is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false.
(Hint: With a 0.05 significance level, the critical value is z = 1.645 , so any test statistic in the right tail of the accompanying top graph is in the rejection region where the claim is supported. Find the sample proportion \(\mathrm p\ ^\wedge\) in the top graph, and use it to find the power shown in the bottom graph.)
b. Explain why the red-shaded region of the bottom graph represents the power of the test.
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