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9.2 Exercise 13

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A microbiologist is testing a water sample for E-coli. Suppose the null hypothesis, H0, is: the sample does not contain E-coli. The probability that the sample does not contain E-coli, but the microbiologist thinks it does is 0.012. The probability that the sample does contain E-coli, but the microbiologist thinks it does not is 0.002. What is the power of this test?

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 9.2 Outcomes and the Type I and Type II Errors, exercise 13

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