What are the null and alternative hypotheses?   b. Using an alpha level of .05 (2-tailed), determine whether his sample was significantly different from population.   c. Given your conclusion in part b, what type of error might you be making

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A clinical psychologist posits that drug use leads to conduct problems. To test this, he examines whether his adolescent inpatient drug users were elevated in terms of conduct disorder (CD). A sample of 100 was evaluated using a standard measure of CD; they had a mean score of 53. The population mean (µ) for the CD scale is 50 with a standard deviation (σ) of 10. (Show all work.)

 

a. What are the null and alternative hypotheses?

 

b. Using an alpha level of .05 (2-tailed), determine whether his sample was significantly different from population.

 

c. Given your conclusion in part b, what type of error might you be making?

 

d. Report and interpret an effect size.

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