A drug manufacturer claims that less than 10% of patients who take its new drug for treating

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A drug manufacturer claims that less than 10% of patients who take its new drug for treating Alzheimer’s disease will experience nausea. To test this claim, researchers conduct an experiment. They give the new drug to a random sample of 300 out of 5000 Alzheimer’s patients whose families have given informed consent for the patients to participate in the study. In all, 25 of the subjects experience nausea.

a. Describe a Type I error and a Type II error in this setting, and give a possible consequence of each.

b. Do these data provide convincing evidence for the drug manufacturer’s claim?

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The Practice Of Statistics

ISBN: 9781319113339

6th Edition

Authors: Daren S. Starnes, Josh Tabor

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