Use the following information when responding to items 15-19 (5.4 points each).

You decide to conduct research to explore patterns of non-prescription narcotic use among offenders in Kentucky and West Virginia. You are interested in learning if the rates of drug use are the same or different in the two states. You are conducting a two-tailed test and set alpha at .05.

15. What is the null hypothesis?

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

16. What is the alternative hypothesis?

___________ __________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

17. You run your analyses and get a p-value of .012. Do you reject or fail to reject the null

Hypothesis? _____________________________________

18. Is there some empirical support for your alternative hypothesis (yes or no)? __________

19. What is the probability of making a Type I Error? _________________________