A researcher claims that the mean systolic blood pressure fo…
A researcher claims that the mean systolic blood pressure for women is lower than the mean systolic blood pressure for men. He selects random samples of 500 women and 500 men. For the sample of women, the mean is 121 mm Hg with a standard deviation of 32 mm Hg, and for the sample of men, the mean is 124 mm Hg with a standard deviation of 30 mm Hg. If a hypothesis test is conducted for the researcher’s claim at the 0.10 level of significance, what type of error could be made?
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