Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 7, Problem 7.118ACB
Effectiveness of online courses. The Survey of Online Learning, “Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2014,” reported that 74% of college leaders believe that their online education courses are as good as or superior to courses that use traditional, face-to-face instruction.
- a. Give the null hypothesis for testing the claim made by the survey.
- b. Give the rejection region for a two-tailed test conducted at α = .01.
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Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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