9.128 Rejecting true H0? A medical researcher conducts a significance test whenever she analyzes a new data

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9.128 Rejecting true H0? A medical researcher conducts a significance test whenever she analyzes a new data set.

Over time, she conducts 100 independent tests.

a. Suppose the null hypothesis is true in every case.
What is the distribution of the number of times she rejects the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level?

b. Suppose she rejects the null hypothesis in five of the tests. Is it plausible that the null hypothesis is correct in every case? Explain.

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Statistics The Art And Science Of Learning From Data

ISBN: 9781292164878

4th Global Edition

Authors: Alan Agresti, Christine A. Franklin, Bernhard Klingenberg

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