Question 7.99

7.99 Interpreting software output.

You use statistical software to perform a significance test of the null hypothesis that two means are equal. The software reports -values for the two-sided alternative. Your alternative is that the first mean is less than the second mean.

  1. The software reports with a -value of 0.07. Would you reject with ? Explain your answer.
  2. The software reports with a -value of 0.07. Would you reject with ? Explain your answer.

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(a) ; we reject . (b) ; we fail to reject .