Lenders tighten or loosen their standards for issuing credit as economic conditions change. One of the...

 

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Lenders tighten or loosen their standards for issuing credit as economic conditions change. One of the criteria lenders use to evaluate the creditworthiness of a potential borrower is her credit risk score, usually a FICO score. FICO scores range from 300 to 850. A consumer with a high FICO score is perceived to be a low credit risk to the lender and is more likely to be extended credit than a consumer with a low score. A credit card represents a line of credit, because the credit card holder obtains a loan whenever the card is used to pay for a purchase. A study of credit card accounts opened in 2002 found a mean FICO score for the credit card holder (at the time the card was issued) of 731 and a standard deviation of 76. [Source: Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, and David Laibson, "Learning in the Credit Card Market," Working Paper 13822, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), February 2008.]) You conduct a hypothesis test to determine whether banks have tightened their standards for issuing credit cards since 2002. You collect a random sample of 100 credit cards issued during the past 6 months. The sample mean FICO score of the credit card holders (at the time their cards were issued) is & = 747. Assume that the standard deviation of the population of FICO scores for credit cards issued during the past 6 months is known to be a = 76, the standard deviation from the NBER study. Let u equal the true population mean FICO score for consumers issued credit cards in the past 6 months. You should formulate the null and alternative hypotheses as: Họ: 8S 731, Hạ: 8 > 731 Họ: P> 731, Hạ: uS 731 Họ: P S 731, H,: > 731 Ho: p 2 731, Ha: H< 731 Lenders tighten or loosen their standards for issuing credit as economic conditions change. One of the criteria lenders use to evaluate the creditworthiness of a potential borrower is her credit risk score, usually a FICO score. FICO scores range from 300 to 850. A consumer with a high FICO score is perceived to be a low credit risk to the lender and is more likely to be extended credit than a consumer with a low score. A credit card represents a line of credit, because the credit card holder obtains a loan whenever the card is used to pay for a purchase. A study of credit card accounts opened in 2002 found a mean FICO score for the credit card holder (at the time the card was issued) of 731 and a standard deviation of 76. [Source: Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, and David Laibson, "Learning in the Credit Card Market," Working Paper 13822, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), February 2008.]) You conduct a hypothesis test to determine whether banks have tightened their standards for issuing credit cards since 2002. You collect a random sample of 100 credit cards issued during the past 6 months. The sample mean FICO score of the credit card holders (at the time their cards were issued) is & = 747. Assume that the standard deviation of the population of FICO scores for credit cards issued during the past 6 months is known to be a = 76, the standard deviation from the NBER study. Let u equal the true population mean FICO score for consumers issued credit cards in the past 6 months. You should formulate the null and alternative hypotheses as: Họ: 8S 731, Hạ: 8 > 731 Họ: P> 731, Hạ: uS 731 Họ: P S 731, H,: > 731 Ho: p 2 731, Ha: H< 731

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Null hypothesis H 731 Alternative hypothesis H 731 Implies H 73... View the full answer