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Suppose you're doing a hypothesis test where the level of significance is 0.05, and you get a P-value of 0.165. What would your decision be in Step 4?

Suppose you're doing a hypothesis test where the level of significance is 0.05, and-example-1
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Answer;

Reject the null hypothesis

Explanation;

Here, we are having a situation in which the level of significance is less than the p-value

In this type of case, what we simply do is to reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis

Hence, simply put, we are going to reject the nulll hypothesis

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