A researcher performed a statistical test with alpha = .05. The test statistic obtained had apvalue=.02.The test statistic in this study must be ____ the critical value.

Hint:Think about your decision based on the p-value, would you reject or FTR Ho?Given that decision, what must be true about the test statistic in regard to the critical value?

more extreme (farther into the tails) than

less extreme (closer to the center of the distribution) than

equal to

there is no way to tell

should you reject or fail to reject thenull hypothesis given

critical value is 1.65 and the obtained value or test statistic is 1.85

which has a higher type I error rate, alpha=.05 or alpha = .01

If a z score is beyond a critical value (further into the tail of the distribution), the researcher should

fail to reject the null hypothesis

reject the null hypothesis

accept the null hypothesis